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“Less Than Touching.” Nancy’s Philosophy of Touch from Corpus to Noli me tangere [PDF]
Phainomena, 2020 The article deals with the philosophy of touch by Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the living legends of (post-)structuralism, whom Jacques Derrida in his book entitled On Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy baptized as “the greatest philosopher of touch.” Nancy is known ...
Mirt Komel
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Discriminative touch and emotional touch.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 2007 Somatic sensation comprises four main modalities, each relaying tactile, thermal, painful, or pruritic (itch) information to the central nervous system. These input channels can be further classified as subserving a sensory function of spatial and temporal localization, discrimination, and provision of essential information for controlling and guiding ...
McGlone, F +4 more
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Sensing touch without touching [PDF]
Science, 2017 Wearable Technology Electronic devices that can be integrated into clothing or worn on skin will provide wearable approaches for monitoring human health or motion. Success depends on the development of bendable, stretchable sensors that respond to touch. Sarwar et al.
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The science of “smell” and the noble for “hugs:” making “sense?”
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021 David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
Ruby Dhar +2 more
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Tactile Detection in Fibromyalgia: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis
Frontiers in Pain Research, 2021 Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by sensorimotor deficits and distortions of body representation, that could both be caused by alterations in sensory processing.
Tania Augière +11 more
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Electrotactile displays: taxonomy, cross-modality, psychophysics and challenges
Frontiers in Virtual RealityTouch is one of the primary senses, and the receptors for touch sense are spread across the whole human body. Electrotactile displays provide tactile feedback to generate different sensations (such as tickling, tingling, itching, and pressure) in human ...
Rahul Kumar Ray +3 more
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SensorsOptimal needle trajectory selection is critical in biopsy procedures to minimize tissue damage and ensure diagnostic accuracy. Timely trajectory planning is essential, as it relies on preoperative CT imaging.
Jian Liu +5 more
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Flavour, 2013 The last few years have seen a rapid growth of research interest in the study of the role of touch and oral-somatosensation in the experience of eating and drinking. The various ways in which the sense of touch can be used to enhance the diner’s/consumer’s experience in both everyday eating and drinking, as well as in the context of experiential dining,
Spence, C. +3 more
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Affectivité, sens et affects : les émotions comme articulation de la vie biologique
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2018 This article argues that attempts by philosophy to think emotions as embodied is caught between the necessity of thinking them as a subjective first person dimension of experience on the one hand and as an objective biological determination on the other.
Ian James
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Touching and Being in Touch with the Menstruating Body [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020 We describe a Research through Design project-Curious Cycles-a collection of objects and interactions which encourage people to be in close contact with their menstruating body. Throughout a full menstrual cycle, five participants used Curious Cycles to look at their bodies in unfamiliar ways and to touch their bodily fluids, specifically, menstrual ...
Campo Woytuk, Nadia +3 more
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