Our sense of touch is made up of multiple sensor types

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Firstly, what we call touch has several elements that contribute to the overall sensation. As well as physical pressure, there’s vibration and temperature, skin stretch and even pain in some circumstances, all of which have their own dedicated receptors in the skin, muscle, organ or bone. All of this is known as the somatosensory system (hence somatosensory cortex) and our whole body is innervated by the nerves that serve it. Pain, aka nociception, has its own dedicated receptors and nerve fibres throughout the body.