Our sense of touch is made up of multiple sensor types
Summary
- Our touch includes physical pressure, vibration, temperature, stretch and pain sensors
Details
- These each have their own sensors in teh skin, muscle, organ and bone.
- Altogether tehy are known as the somatosensory system
- Pain has its own dedicated receptors and nerve fibres
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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.
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