After nine months in the womb, humans enter a world filled with texture and shape. We must then quickly learn to recognize ...

Salk neuroscientists discover brain area called gracile nucleus is central to the development of mechanical allodynia, a chronic pain condition that affects 7 to 10 percent of the global population.

People with artificial limbs could one day have their sensation of touch restored through electrical stimulation of the brain, new experiments in monkeys reveal. This research could help improve the ...

Star Trek's holodeck, that lets people physically interact with a virtual world could be a step closer thanks to a 'universal law of touch', discovered by British scientists. Researchers from the ...