Our 45-minute charter-flight from Miami and the bus ride into Havana make us feel like astronauts of a sort, touching down for nine days in a parallel world.
To explore how sensory responses depended on different tactile stimulus features we sorted touches and the L4 neuron responses by one of three behavioral variables: the order of touch within each trial, to account for adaptation; whisker velocity just before touch, to account for rate of change of impact forces; maximum whisker curvature during touch, which is proportional to peak touch force.
It is sort of touch and go.
There are times when even other riders will concede that Bailey has had that sort of touch.
What matters with Richter are all the differences, between one kind of painting and another, between one sort of touch or approach and another.
John Kerry marched to the presidential debate accompanied by a firefighters' band of bagpipers, just the sort of touch you might expect from a candidate riding a surge.
The defender was then in the thick of the action in front of goal again at the start of the second half, this time deflecting a shot from Van Persie clear when any sort of touch the other way would have steered the ball past the keeper.
Carlton weren't in the sort of touch that propelled them to a superb win over Geelong last week at the same venue, but they had the struggling visitors covered, kicking away to a 24-point lead at quarter-time and extending their advantage to 39 at half-time.
They meant, Look, it's a summer night, look, the lawn is dark but there's still a little light left in the sky; they meant you wanted to hear my voice, to hear yourself ask a question that would bring you my voice — it was hardly a question at all, rather a sort of touch, rising out of the night, out of the sounds in the house, the flash of the fireflies.
Think about it as a sort of Touch Bar, but for the iPhone.
