Haptic perception and dynamic touch encompass the sophisticated processes through which the human sensorimotor system interprets object properties by means of active manipulation. This modality relies ...

Healthy participants are needed to participate in a research study at the JHU Homewood campus, in Krieger Hall, room G60. The purpose of the study is to investigate human touch perception and ...

As we interact with the world, we feel it when we touch things. The information we get from touch sensations helps us carry out many daily activities, from typing on a keyboard to handling food.

Every hug, every handshake, every dexterous act engages and requires touch perception, and so understanding the molecular basis of touch is important. But to date, scientists had only known about one ...

Imagine a world where robots can feel, just like you and me. It’s not a scene from a sci-fi movie, but the exciting reality that Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is working tirelessly ...

Touch is a vital sense in human survival and experience, not for just how it informs personal connections but as an important early warning system for identifying harm. Yet not all touch is equal.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Our skin endows us with a profoundly multifaceted sensory awareness unmatched in machines. Human touch conveys intricate patterns of pressure, thermal flow and subsurface textures ...