Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

A study published in Science, paves the way for complex touch sensations through brain stimulation while using an extracorporeal bionic limb, that is attached to a chair or wheelchair. The paper ...

"By better understanding how the brain processes different types of touch, we hope to someday work toward more healthy outlets of expression to avoid self-injury." Researchers used several ...

Though the sense of touch underlies how we and most other animals interact with the world around us, much remains unknown about how this sense is processed in the brain. Researchers from ...

As reported in the open-access journal, PLOS Biology, the researchers find that active and passive touch are processed by different pathways in the brain. Active touch can be thought of as ...

A new study reveals that adults with autism process active and passive touch similarly, unlike neurotypical individuals whose brains reduce activity during self-initiated touch.

"By better understanding how the brain processes different types of touch, we hope to someday work toward more healthy outlets of expression to avoid self-injury." Researchers used several ...