Sentence examples for sensation of touch from inspiring English sources

The sensation of touch on hairy skin in humans depends on stimulation of the nerve fibres associated with the hairs.

"This made us interested in whether this unusual way of activating light touch fibres actually produces a conscious sensation of touch".

During the first type of treatment, the part of the brain that showed most increase in blood flow (and hence, it is assumed, in activity) was the area associated with the sensation of touch.

Without any sensation of touch, it would be easy for people to crush or drop objects they were trying to grasp, or misjudge the terrain underfoot and stumble, the scientists said.

Long before it became fashionable to discuss the haptic in visual art, the ability of pictures to conjure the sensation of touch, Morreau wrote: "We need the tactile quality because it is like flesh.

The readouts from the hand's sensors were processed by a computer, which then fed tiny jolts of electricity into the electrodes.After a bit of calibration, Mr Sorensen reported feeling a sensation of touch in the thumb, index finger and little finger of his newly installed hand.

These 'ultrahaptics' use ultrasound to manipulate air molecules in a layer above the screen, providing the sensation of touching a real object through the skin of a user.

"If you haven't felt the sensation of touching something that isn't there, it has a strong psychological effect that you don't expect until you've done it," said Mike Bevan, managing editor of VR News, a trade magazine.

Therefore, this model offers both the physical structure of human retinal vessels and the tactile sensation of touching them.

The physical sensation of touching something warm influenced their assessments of the "warmth" of someone's personality.

Thus, the wall thickness of the top of the microchannels can be controlled to mimic the sensation of touching a retinal vessel.