Source: D4K: “Five Senses"
Visit the D4K companion Web site to learn more about Touch: D4K: “Five Senses"
This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the role of skin in our sense of touch. There are at least 7 different sensors in the skin that detect pain, temperature, light and hard pressure, vibration, and movement. The sensors send the signals along nerves to the brain.
Download and ShareCHILD: Your sense of touch is really a bunch of senses that work together and you start with your skin.
JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN: Your skin is the largest organ in the body. The layers of skin have at least seven different kinds of sensors and there are as many as a million of these microscopic touch sensors in a square inch of skin. Some of these nerves respond to light pressure. Others respond to heavy pressure. Some are activated by heat, cold or even vibrations.
So, when you touch something all that information activates the nerves and that information goes to your brain.
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