We each have millions of receptors which respond to various touch stimuli distributed throughout our skin. However, certain parts of our bodies – our face and hands, for example – have a much higher ...

When he’s curled up inside the womb, your baby doesn’t have much exploring to do. But even in this protected world, a fetus is actively developing a sense of touch.

Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive ...

Japanese scientists discover the molecular switch that lets the Venus flytrap sense touch.

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations. Like ...

After nine months in the womb, humans enter a world filled with texture and shape. We must then quickly learn to recognize and respond to textures and objects in the outside world, beginning with ...

Salk neuroscientists discover brain area called gracile nucleus is central to the development of mechanical allodynia, a ...

What has no brain, no nervous system, and not even nerves, yet acts as if it has reflexes? The answer is a Venus fly trap.

The secret of the Venus flytrap's deadly bite has finally been revealed. The unique touch sensor of the carnivorous plant ...

Researchers find that scents are not only processed by the olfactory center, but also by the brain’s reward and aversion systems, explaining how scents take on meaning. The CRACK platform was used as ...

People with maltreatment experiences in their childhood have a changed perception of social stimuli later as adults. This is what scientists from the Division of Medical Psychology at the University ...

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