This is my 13th bimonthly news letter. The fifth on the 5 senses. (Sorry for taking so long with this)

_{I only feature images that are not popular yet, as it is so easy to make great features with images that are already popular, but I want to make a feature with images not yet popular that I think would get a lot more popular if they would be seen. So the pictures I feature all have less then 100 favs at the time I feature them. I hope you will enjoy them.}

the sense of TOUCH

It describes the physical sensation of touch through perception. The somatosensory system is a diverse sensory system comprising the receptors and processing centres to produce the sensory modalities such as touch, temperature, proprioception (body position), and nociception (pain). The sensory receptors cover the skin and epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones and joints, internal organs, and the cardiovascular system. While touch is considered one of the five traditional senses, the impression of touch is formed from several modalities; In medicine, the colloquial term touch is usually replaced with somatic senses to better reflect the variety of mechanisms involved.

Skin




Touch




At its simplest, the system works when a sensory neuron is triggered by a specific stimulus such as heat; this neuron passes to an area in the brain uniquely attributed to that area on the body—this allows the processed stimulus to be felt at the correct location. The mapping of the body surfaces in the brain is called a homunculus and is essential in the creation of a body image.

caress




The term feeling can also stand for conscious subjective experience of emotion, though it is not related to the other interpretation of the term.

Feelings





I hope you enjoyed!

Next time:
Other/ nonhuman senses



_{If you have any suggestions, please do send me a note.
Remember the image must have less than 100 s}