A team from the University of Chicago brings us a new spin on sensory ... skin, triggering your touch receptors electrically. An 5×6 array of such “tactile” pixels is placed on the back of ...

This final article in our series on the human senses explores the physiology of the sense of touch, including the receptors and sensory ... types of skin are recognised: Thick or glabrous skin, which ...

Sensory receptors in human skin transmit a wealth of tactile and ... To attach devices to target substrates (for example, prosthetic hand), the encapsulated device is attached on the target ...

Previously misunderstood multi-sensory organs ... of the hardened skin, rather than their shape being genetically determined. The scales have sensors known as dome pressure receptors (DPR) or ...