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Touch  

jbpaulson1990 35M
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6/10/2019 9:41 pm
Touch

Touch is perhaps the most overlooked sense.

Every one of us receives tactile information about the world around us every second of the day. Right now, if you're sitting, your butt is being squished into your chair. Your fingertips are probably touching a mouse, or swiping the glass of your phone. All this information is so omnipresent, in fact, that the only way to make sense of it is to tune most of it out — you probably weren't paying attention to these sensations until you read those words.

"You can't turn off touch. It never goes away," says David Linden, a neurobiologist at Johns Hopkins and author of the new book Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind. "You can close your eyes and imagine what it's like to be blind, and you can stop up your<b> ears </font></b>and imagine what it's like to be deaf. But touch is so central and ever-present in our lives that we can't imagine losing it."

In the book, Linden explores all sorts of fascinating aspects about this enigmatic sense. He recently spoke with me about some of what he's learned.

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