Tiny eye movements can be used as an index of humans’ ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment independent of the information’s sensory modality. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: touch
Mind-controlled arm prostheses that ‘feel’ are now a part of everyday life
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•For the first time, people with arm amputations can experience sensations of touch in a mind-controlled arm prosthesis that they use in everyday life. A study reports on three Swedish …read more Source:: Science
Repairing stroke-damaged rat brains
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•Researchers have succeeded in restoring mobility and sensation of touch in stroke-afflicted rats by reprogramming human skin cells to become nerve cells, which were then transplanted into the rats’ brains. …read more Source:: Science
Scratching the surface of how your brain senses an itch
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•Light touch plays a critical role in everyday tasks, such as picking up a glass or playing a musical instrument, as well as for detecting the touch of, say, biting …read more Source:: Science
Novel sensors could enable smarter textiles
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•A fabric coating with thin, lightweight and flexible pressure sensors that can be embedded into shoes and other functional garments, sensors that can measure everything from the light touch of …read more Source:: Science
Parker Solar Probe launches on historic journey to touch the sun
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•Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake …read more Source:: Science
How a light touch can spur severe itching
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•Scientists have found that itching caused by touch is directly related to the number of touch receptors embedded in the skin. The team found, in mice, that fewer receptors make …read more Source:: Science
Restoring the sense of touch in amputees using natural signals of nervous system
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•Scientists have found a way to produce realistic sensations of touch in two human amputees by directly stimulating the nervous system. …read more Source:: Science
Bionic fingertip gives sense of touch to amputee
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•A bionic fingertip has given an amputee the sensation of rough or smooth textures via electrodes implanted into nerves in his upper arm. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
From pixels to pixies: the future of touch is sound
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•SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Ultrasound – inaudible sound waves normally associated with cancer treatments and monitoring the unborn – may change the way we interact with our mobile devices. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews