During the process you use your sense of touch to develop an image in your mind of the wall’s surface and make a better guess for where the switch is.
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Touché proposes a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique that can not only detect a touch event, but also recognize complex configurations of the human hands and body. 
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Neuroscientists have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new findings open new doors for understanding how the brain collects and processes information from hairy skin.
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An attentive, nurturing mother may be able to help her children better resist the temptations of drug use later in life, according to a study in rats conducted by Duke University and the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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In this quantum world, what does it mean to touch something? Do we really hover above the chairs we're sitting in? MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.l...
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
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Vision and hearing are so crucial to our daily lives that any impairments usually become obvious to an affected person.
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Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch.
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The timing and frequency of vibrations produced in the skin when you run your hands along a surface, like searching a wall for a light switch, play an important role in how we use our sense of touch to gather information about the objects and surfaces around us