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Touch Perception (Noun)

Meaning

The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain.

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Examples

  • The loss of touch perception in her fingertips made it difficult for her to type accurately.
  • Researchers studied the neural mechanisms underlying touch perception to better understand how the brain processes sensory information.
  • The patient's diminished touch perception made it challenging for her to sense the temperature of objects, often resulting in burns.
  • The somatosensory cortex is responsible for processing touch perception, allowing us to feel sensations such as pressure and vibration.
  • Newborns rely heavily on touch perception to explore and understand their environment, as their visual system is still developing.

Synonyms

  • Tactility
  • Tactual Sensation
  • Skin Perceptiveness

Hypernyms

  • Somatic Sensory System
  • Somesthesia
  • Somatosensory System
  • Somatic Sense
  • Somesthesis
  • Somatesthesia
  • Somaesthesis
  • Somataesthesis
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