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 Heidelberg ...

Engineers in the Virtual Reality Laboratory at UB have developed a new technology that transmits the sensation of touch over the Internet. The breakthrough could lead to creation of haptic ...

PITTSBURGH, May 1, 2025 – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists are one step closer to developing a brain-computer interface, or BCI, that allows people with tetraplegia to restore ...

The human hand possesses a refined sense of touch, but the exact sensitivity of a single sensory neuron has not been studied before. To address this, Jarocka et al. measured the electrical activity of ...

The human sense of touch is critical to being able to perform many activities of daily living. We take our ability to feel how heavy a cup of hot liquid is and make adjustments without thinking about ...