Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch
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Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch
INTRODUCTION You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening, and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to “feel” is called somatosensation (so-MATo-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that involves, among others, the experience of being touched or stroked on the skin, but also sensing temperature and feeling pain. In addition, somatosensat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers for Young Minds
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2296-6846
DOI: 10.3389/frym.2013.00011