"Tactile sensation" refers to the sense of touch and the feeling you experience when you physically touch something. It is the way we perceive the texture, temperature, and pressure of objects when we come into contact with them.
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Sensing could also be remote in time: You might record the visual, audio, and
tactile sensations of playing with your child, for example, to play back later.
Since it's capable of very expressive feelings, we're putting a lot of effort in to get the
best tactile sensations possible.
It's the Taptic Engine — the component that provides
tactile sensations in the form of vibrations - that takes up most of the space left by the 3.5 mm connection's removal.
Mirror - touch synaesthetes feel conscious
tactile sensations on their own bodies when they see another person, or even an object, being touched.
Intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex offers the potential for creating a sensory neuroprosthesis to
restore tactile sensation.
Well, hopefully, you've had a chance to see for yourself just how powerful a toy this can be, providing opportunities
for tactile sensation play, social skills, and imaginative play.
We show that microstimulation within the hand area of the somatosensory cortex of a person with long - term spinal cord injury
evokes tactile sensations perceived as originating from locations on the hand and that cortical stimulation sites are organized according to expected somatotopic principles.
Bryan Gick and colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, wondered
whether tactile sensations affect hearing too.
«This raises an interesting issue as to whether serotonin uptake inhibitors, such as cocaine, methamphetamine and other recreational drugs in this category, may act at the epidermal serotonergic synapses to
alter tactile sensations.
Two people who lost their hands have been trying a prosthesis that transmits
complex tactile sensations, such as the feel of water trickling over their hand
Risk personalization: one's protective behavioral and emotional responses as well as visual, auditory and
tactile sensations experienced during the tornado.
The main findings of the doctoral research of Eliane Deschrijver, which are now published, show that individuals with ASD may have difficulties to determine
which tactile sensations belong to the action of someone else.
The regions of the neocortex that
map tactile sensations — probably the ruffling of hair in particular — also got a big boost, which suggests the sense of touch was vital too.
It's a shame that we spend most of our time in the Conti with gloves on our hands, because the bare -
fingered tactile sensations are what truly set it apart from just about every other automobile on the planet.
Forget the click - clack cliché, the spindly lever makes more of a sckreech sound as it squeezes between the metal cutaways, a noise that would be comparable to fingers down a blackboard were it not for the
satisfyingly tactile sensations of mechanical components meshing precisely with one another.
While the words
explore tactile sensations — the crush of the soldier's combat boots, the sweat on his back — Grifalconi's illustrations blend collaged photos with watercolors.
Replicating the feel of writing with a pencil or pen is still such a novel trick that we applaud the Sony Digital Paper DPT - RP1 for both its nifty stylus and
excellent tactile sensation.
He swipes cups, cuts pictures and picks locks with a deftness that borders on being artistry, and that creates a
strangely tactile sensation when you're playing.
Flat screen offers realistic
tactile sensation Tokyo and Kawasaki, Japan, February 24, 2014 — Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced development of a prototype tablet with a touchscreen that conveys a sense of slipperiness or roughness depending on the image being displayed.
While its all - black chassis suggests a strictly business affair, it's also decked out in a soft - touch paint whose smooth texture makes for a pleasant
tactile sensation while setting the system apart from other business systems.
Cutting - edge technologies — including 3D sound that can only be heard in particular places within a room and ultrasound speakers that
produce tactile sensations — encourage new interpretations of paintings by Francis Bacon, David Bomberg, Richard Hamilton and John Latham.
Desensitization does occur, causing a decrease in both the taste and
tactile sensations on the tongue, but this effect seems to be temporary and does not destroy the tastebuds.
Despite the tradeoffs, one thing is certain: human research is key to our understanding of how people perceive electrical stimulation of the brain, and how we may use it to
restore tactile sensation to users and help them drink that morning cup of coffee on their own.
«But reproducing
realistic tactile sensations is difficult because we don't yet fully understand the basic ways in which materials interact with the sense of touch.»
«By using vortices of air rather than simple air jets, the device can provide
a tactile sensation over longer distances and with much greater accuracy,» the report says.
Some colors, some sounds, and
some tactile sensations may all have much the same emotional basis.
They came fried into a coconut shell (excuse me please, my technical english is not too bad but if I have to tell a story or something else, I am really lost) and there was a delicious sauce, something like egg yolk (that was
the tactile sensation) but the flavour was something sweet and sour, like orange, mandarin orange or something like that.
«Indeed animal studies find that
the tactile sensation from maternal grasp and proprioception are required to elicit the carrying - induced calming responses» (Esposito).
So say researchers who have shown that
tactile sensations can influence the judgements we make in everyday situations.
«What we're showing in this paper is that patients who used a brain - machine interface for a long period of time experienced improvements in motor behavior,
tactile sensations and visceral functions below the level of the spinal cord injury,» he said.
Yet the middle finger does not feel cold unless it is in contact with a neutral coin; if there are
no tactile sensations emerging from it, the brain is reluctant to «fill in,» or ascribe cold to, this region.
They help to bridge the gap between the physical act of touching and the cognitive awareness of
tactile sensation.