In the same way, if you’re daring enough to bite into a Szechuan, the touch receptors in your lips and mouth will be stimulated, and as a result, they’ll go numb in a few minutes.

Dr. Goldreich now believes women generally do better on tactile tests simply because they tend to have smaller hands than men, not because they have an intrinsically superior sense of touch.

Touch receptors are a subtype of sensory neuron that are located in the skin and possess specialized endings that respond to mechanical stimulation. As part of the somatosensory system, touch ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2025.240152, discusses how multi-photon bionic skin realizes high-precision haptic visualization for reconstructive perception.

People who have smaller fingers have a finer sense of touch, according to new research in the Dec. 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding explains why women tend to have better ...

Home > Extreme New tactile display sends information through skin instead of eyes MIT researchers are working on creating tactile display technology that relies on your skin to transmit information.

Smaller fingers would then have more closely spaced vibration receptors," Goldreich said. "Our results suggest that this same relationship between finger size and receptor spacing occurs for the ...