| 单词 | sense of touch |
| 例句 | When the vet diagnosed her as deaf, he also found out she had some condition where she didn’t have a fully developed sense of touch. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Therefore he had a sense of touch, and the thing against which he lay existed too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When elephants walk through the cave at night, they navigate by their sense of touch, probing the floor ahead of them with the tips of their trunks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For eight minutes, I shut off my sight and focused on my sense of touch. A Human-Size Spider Web Is Getting a Boost From TikTok 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z If I asked you to explain your sense of touch, you would probably describe it as the ability to feel things with your fingers. Ever wondered about your sense of touch? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The only one of the five senses that is not pleasantly rewarded by this magnificent fruit is the sense of touch. A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But the room is also a type of a stage, an immersive theater that engages sight, sound and a sense of touch. Review: Aliens Drop Anchor in ‘Arrival,’ but What Are Their Intentions? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He could move it by thinking, and through signals passed back to his brain, experience a sense of touch. 2016's best bits: breakthroughs in science 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The work starts off with a cluster of dancers moving more or less as one as they sink and rise from the floor, maintaining, to different degrees, a sense of touch. Review: Kyle Abraham Takes on Cunningham and, as Always, Love 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Her 2017 video “We hold where study,” which was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, features four dancers using their sense of touch to improvise choreography over a looping saxophone soundtrack. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Tabboo!’s drawings of imaginary plants imaginatively named set the whole show slightly on edge, highlighting the sharp contemporaneity of the artists’ sense of touch and pattern and their quotations of design. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Frank is very good with his iPhone, but he's very cynical about tech and feels we're losing our sense of touch because of it. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z In reality, your sense of touch is much more. Ever wondered about your sense of touch? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z That’s a feel, not a smell or taste, and it passes to the brain through nerves that handle the sense of touch. Feel the burn: why do we love chilli? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The common theme, though, is that all of these sensations are really manifestations of our sense of touch, and they’re surprisingly vital to our experience of flavour. Feel the burn: why do we love chilli? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z What keeps you looking is her sculptures' formal sublety, her terrific sense of touch, her ability to transform the lowly through unexpected conjunctions. Sarah Lucas: tights, melons and concrete pies 2012-07-18T17:30:03Z Blind masseurs, known throughout Asia to be excellent therapists because of their heightened sense of touch, are becoming a trend for spa and wellness retreats worldwide. In Transit: In Fiji, Hands That 'See' 2011-07-15T15:15:05Z And he’s like, ‘The only one of the five senses that is not pleasantly rewarded by this magnificent fruit is the sense of touch.’ A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “Anything that tastes good, smells good, or is pleasing to your sense of touch is a great way to soothe,” says Best. Perspective | How to keep your cool with your kids when everyone is cooped up together 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z I can’t help thinking of two related metaphors for memory, both of which involve the sense of touch: What of the world rubs off on us? Perspective | I had never seen Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper.’ A quick visit left a lasting impression. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z His wife, Fiona, had a heightened sense of touch due to profound visual impairment, the trust explained. Willenhall lorry driver thanks wife after his breast cancer diagnosis 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z They use their sense of touch to feel the shape of the dots, which tells them what the words or numbers are. Lego Braille bricks 'let me play with grandkids' 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z According to Mr. McDonough’s 2022 justification for the experiment, wires and pressure sensors are implanted under the skin and are supposed to restore a sense of touch. Lawmakers ask VA to stop ‘cruel’ experiments on cats 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z In 2014, William Tyler, now at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and his colleagues applied ultrasound to a sensory region in the brain and found that it enhanced a subject’s sense of touch. Ultrasound Pulses to Brain Send Mice Into a Hibernation-Like State 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The technology could lead to the development of a covering for prosthetic limbs that would give their wearers a sense of touch, or help to restore sensation in people whose skin has been damaged. Soft ‘Electronic Skin’ Mimics Our Sense of Touch 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z When handling rare books, experts say that bare, just-cleaned hands are best — instead of white cotton gloves, which attract dirt and reduce the wearer’s sense of touch, increasing the likelihood of misadventure or clumsiness. Your Friday Briefing 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z What does this funny-looking mole have to do with our sense of touch? Review | Rodent: Friend or foe? ‘Pests’ explores how some animals become villains. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Somatosensation is also known as tactile sense, or more familiarly, as the sense of touch. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z For example, the general sense of touch, which is known as somatosensation, can be separated into light pressure, deep pressure, vibration, itch, pain, temperature, or hair movement. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z He also wants to give BCI users a sense of touch, a goal being pursued by several labs. Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Diaphanous, the petals harness light’s visual capacities to appeal to the sense of touch, not just sight. Review: Photo visionary Imogen Cunningham gets a refocus in new Getty retrospective 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Professor Nathan Lepora, from the University of Bristol's department of engineering maths said: "Our work helps uncover how the complex internal structure of human skin creates our human sense of touch." 3D printed fingertips 'like skin' says University of Bristol 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z For the sense of touch, a stimulus must come into contact with body. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z In the new work, University of Bristol engineer Nathan Lepora and colleagues put the artificial tip through its paces, testing it the same way researchers assess a person’s sense of touch. Artificial fingertip gives robots nearly humanlike touch 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Together, they fashioned a robotic arm with pressure sensors embedded in its fingertips, which fed into electrodes implanted in the somatosensory cortex to evoke a synthetic sense of touch. Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z As Jackie Higgins explains in her brilliant new book, “Sentient,” these heightened tactile abilities make this little-known creature the perfect specimen to help scientists explore the sense of touch in other animals, including humans. Review | What does this funny-looking mole have to do with our sense of touch? A new book explains. 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The researchers created the sense of touch in the artificial fingertip using a 3D-printed mesh of tiny pin-like bumps similar to those found on human skin. 3D printed fingertips 'like skin' says University of Bristol 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They are portable and they have haptic properties that stimulate our sense of touch. Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers? 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Their tentacles are packed with neurons that endow each one with a hyperaware sense of touch, as well as the ability to smell and taste. Scientists peered into an octopus' brain — and were astonished at what they saw 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z That’s going to knock down your sense of touch, proprioception and everything else. 2021 Medicine Nobel Prize Winner Explains the Importance of Sensing Touch 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Dr. Patapoutian said that he gravitated to studying the sense of touch and pain because those systems remained so mysterious. Nobel Prize Awarded for Research About Temperature and Touch 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z A 3D-printed fingertip made to help improve prosthetics has a sense of touch like human skin, a study suggests. 3D printed fingertips 'like skin' says University of Bristol 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “I thought the peripheral nervous system, the sense of touch and pain, was specifically interesting because it was sensors outside the brain,” Patapoutian said. Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two U.S.-based scientists ‘for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Two researchers who elucidated key molecules that control the sense of touch have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Hot—and cool—research wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Titian’s appeal to our sense of touch is the key to the painting’s overall credibility — the thing that makes us not only believe it but succumb to it. Simply the most beautiful paintings in the world The channel integral to the sense of touch became known as Piezo1, after the Greek word for pressure. Nobel Prize Awarded for Research About Temperature and Touch 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z To replicate the human sense of touch, the researchers infused the material with microscopic metal particles and added tiny electrodes underneath the surface of the foam. Smart foam material gives robotic hand the ability to self-repair 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z This “allows me to be more present in the gesture, fully sinking into a ritual state where I rely on my haptic perception,” she explains, referring to the sense of touch. This artist is inspired by landscape, whether terrestrial, cosmic or internal 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The sense of touch “has fascinated humankind for thousands of years,” Patrik Ernfors, a member of the Nobel Committee, said this morning at the announcement in Stockholm. Hot—and cool—research wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z They routed sensory information from a robotic arm into the part of his cortex that dealt with his right hand’s sense of touch. Opinion | The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “When you lose your sense of touch, you essentially become numb... and prosthetic users face that problem,” said Tee. Scientists inspired by 'Star Wars' create artificial skin able to feel 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, 53, of Castro Valley, California, thinks of those who are blind like her daughter, who rely so much on their sense of touch to connect. Hugs and kisses, deferred: Pandemic cuts physical contact 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The remora clings to other fish—and appears to use an unusual sense of touch to do so. This Fish Knows How to Stick Around 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Researchers are zooming in on the huge, complex Piezo proteins that power our sense of touch. Daily briefing: Origin of repeating fast radio burst deepens its mystery 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “But we think that the skin itself—the sense of touch—could qualitatively add to your experience that you could achieve with VR, beyond anything that's possible with audio and video.” New Virtual Reality Interface Enables "Touch" Across Long Distances 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z For instance, the sense of touch is a collection of several sensations, encompassing pressure, pain and temperature, and touch receptors are stimulated by a combination of mechanical, chemical and thermal energy. Virtual and augmented reality enhanced by touch 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “What is it to have a body? What is it to have a sense of touch? How are you orientated in space?” Jonathan Ledgard Believes Imagination Could Save the World 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, such high-risk research seems worth the effort, because our sense of touch is so fundamental to our sense of being. A mechanism for touch 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Moreover, the sense of touch directly enables tactile exploration aimed at object recognition and localization. Bridging the gap between artificial vision and touch 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Despite the many anecdotes about an altered sense of touch in autistic people, quantifying the differences has proved difficult. ‘I will feel actual rage.’ Unusual responses to kind touches could help explain autism traits 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Facebook’s experiments involve using a sense of touch to help a robot complete simple tasks. Facebook is experimenting with robots to push its AI research forward 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The singer was also devastated by losing his sense of touch and taste. Helena Christensen recalls her relationship with INXS singer Michael Hutchence: ‘Something drastic happened’ 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “My whole sense of touch increased,” she said in an oral history for the Archives of American Art. Barbara Hammer, artist whose films explored lesbian sexuality, dies at 79 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Even low concentrations of dissolved copper in water can damage salmons’ sense of touch and smell. Canadian company applies for permit for exploratory mining in headwaters of Skagit River 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She and others stress that if autism does originate in the sense of touch, it arises from deep in the nervous system and is entirely unrelated to nurture. ‘I will feel actual rage.’ Unusual responses to kind touches could help explain autism traits 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z He also uses his sense of touch to assess the smooth perfection of his wood decking by stroking the model with his fingertips. Ketchikan historical museum displays model boats 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z He also uses his sense of touch to assess the smooth perfection of his wood decking by stroking the model with his fingertips. Ketchikan historical museum displays model boats 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Yet a common perspective is that the sense of touch is, by far, of limited use over the long term, and especially when compared to the visual system. A Touch to Remember 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “People wearing them are enthusiastic about being able to manipulate objects more precisely, or even regain their sense of touch.” Moving skin beyond the biological 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z If things go according to his plan, sophisticated and squishy electronics will give robots a sense of touch. The world at their feet 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z It is an unusual object to use to exemplify the sense of touch. Master of gore: the violent, shocking genius of Jusepe de Ribera 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Piper, Littau and Anne Mangen’s group emphasize that the sense of touch in print reading adds an important redundancy to information – a kind of “geometry” to words, and a spatial “thereness” for text. Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound | Maryanne Wolf 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Their finding: the sense of touch generates memories that are far more complex and long-lasting than previously thought. A Touch to Remember 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It seems almost a natural leap, then, for researchers such as Bao to suggest using skin-like electronics to give prosthetics a sense of touch. Moving skin beyond the biological 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Even low concentrations of dissolved copper can impair neurons, damaging salmons’ sense of touch and ability to smell. Logging in Upper Skagit River watershed put on hold as Seattle has ‘grave concern’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Photo by James Vincent / The Verge Haptic feedback or “haptics” is the deployment of vibration or physical resistance to engage your sense of touch when using technology. Haptic feedback is making VR surgery feel like the real thing 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z He is pursuing two approaches to giving his soft robot hands a sense of touch. How robots are grasping the art of gripping 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Typically, the sense of touch is so omnipresent, and its effects so seemingly ephemeral, that it is often taken for granted or overlooked. A Touch to Remember 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Robots with a sense of touch could perform more-complex tasks and are less likely to break things or hurt someone. Moving skin beyond the biological 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z We’ve used this knowledge to enable paralyzed patients to move robotic limbs and regain a sense of touch. The Key to Smarter AI: Copy the Brain 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Any time he sees someone experience pain, or even just the sense of touch, his brain recreates the sensations in his own body. The doctor who really feels his patients' pain 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “The bottle is ribbed, so it’s for the sense of touch,” he said. Firefighter uses homemade gadget to help autistic patients 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z It would seem then that the sense of touch is largely useful in the moment, and not much after that. A Touch to Remember 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z But it was the skills he learned racing blind, the sense of touch and feel, that made him so good. The life and death of Steve Holcomb, forever seeking that perfect line 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Even more challenging, researchers were trying to restore the sense of touch to amputees through that robotic hand. New robotic hand named after Luke Skywalker helps amputee touch and feel again 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z What are the implications of a three-dimensional writing system, in which the sense of touch plays as important a role as sight, and how does this expand our understanding of what “writing” is? Unraveling an Ancient Code Written In Strings 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z We’re all drawn to things that wake us up, things that grab our attention through our hearing or our sight or our sense of touch. Why Kids Love Being Scared, According to a Famous Children's Author 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The BrainPort, which uses the sense of touch as a substitute for sight, is one of a growing number of so-called sensory-substitution devices. Seeing with Your Tongue 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z His medication sometimes made him so groggy he barely seemed to notice when a therapist at one clinic tried to stimulate his sense of touch by brushing his shoulders, back and arms with sponges. Zika Twins: A Window Into Much More Than a Virus 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Adding the sense of touch to prosthetic hands also appears to reduce a painful feeling many amputees experience called phantom pain, and it creates a sense of ownership over the device, researchers said. New robotic hand named after Luke Skywalker helps amputee touch and feel again 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The clay-colored sand was soft, and Ms. Vieira brushed Daniel’s hand through it, trying to awaken his sense of touch, supporting his stiff torso while his head slumped forward. For Brazil’s Zika Families, a Life of Struggle and Scares 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Visitors also get a chance to create brick mosaic artwork, to explore brick sculpting and to blind-build a specific mini-kit using only their sense of touch. Ohio museum’s Lego exhibit features staff-built displays 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z I’ve seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch, and wounded warriors once given up for dead walk again. Read President Obama’s Farewell Letter to America: ‘You Made Me a Better Man’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z I’ve seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch. President Obama's Farewell Speech: Read Full Transcript 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z I’ve seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch, and our wounded warriors walk again. President Obama’s Farewell Address: Full Video and Text 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z I’ve seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch, and our wounded warriors walk again. Read the full transcript of President Obama's farewell speech 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z This is the science of haptics, the intersection between technology and the sense of touch. From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Lots of work is under way to add a sense of touch. Artificial hand helps amputees feel just how hard to squeeze 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Before the surgery, doctors used imaging techniques to identify the exact regions in Copeland's brain that corresponded to the sense of touch in each of his fingers and his palm. Brain Chips Help Paralyzed Man Regain Sense of Touch Using Robotic Arm 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But when he and his team conducted neurological tests, every three months during the year of training, they saw improvements in the patients' muscle control - as well as in their sense of touch. Brain-robot training triggers improvement in paralysis - BBC News 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “The way we navigate our world is largely with a sense of touch,” she says. Autism may stem—in part—from a disordered sense of touch 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the success of haptics will depend upon designers and developers understanding how the sense of touch works scientifically, but also how it triggers us emotionally. From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Thick gloves reduce the sense of touch and yellow-tinted goggles simulate eye cataracts. The grey market 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z "We are dealing with students with special needs, they are blind or visually impaired, so we urge them to depend on their hearing sense more than their sense of touch that they use in braille." Palestinians teach blind students English via music 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Declines in the sense of touch were also common. Decline in Senses Affects Nearly All Seniors, Study Finds 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z But there’s still one big difference between my real hands and my virtual ones: The latter lack a sense of touch, sometimes breaking VR’s illusion. This Startup Gave Me a Hand in Virtual Reality 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z “He picks things up so rapidly. And he has an amazing sense of touch.” Nearly blind Ohio man finds new calling as a masseuse 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Although you have fantastic vision and magnification, there is no tactile feedback from the wristed instruments — you can't feel anything — and surgery has in the past relied heavily on sense of touch. Q&A: Declan Murphy : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Just the sense of touch in each forearm and gloved hand. Officer’s Killing Sends Divers on Murky Hunt in the Harlem River 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z At 4 months of age, “the sense of touch is still disconnected from other senses,” said Jannath Begum Ali, a psychologist at the University of London and one of the study’s authors. Babies Take Months to Link Touches to What Touches Them 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Now, researchers report that one day in the not too distant future, those artificial arms and legs may have a sense of touch closely resembling the real thing. Sensors may soon give prosthetics a lifelike sense of touch 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z These run the gamut from the Global Positioning System to prosthetic hands that may give amputees a sense of touch. The secretive government agency where ‘anything imagined can be tried’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest barrier is a sense of touch. Virtual reality: So near, yet so far - BBC News 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z We call this haptic feedback: tactile technology that recreates the sense of touch artificially through the application of force, vibration or movement. Can We Commercialize Touch? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z By wiring a sense of touch from a mechanical hand directly into the brain, this work shows the potential for seamless biotechnological restoration of near-natural function. Man fitted with robotic hand wired directly into his brain can 'feel' again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Prosthetic limbs may work wonders for restoring lost function in some amputees, but one thing they can’t do is restore an accurate sense of touch. Sensors may soon give prosthetics a lifelike sense of touch 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Previous studies had concluded that the pedipalps, which are basically modified arms emanating from the arachnid’s head, were lacking any sort of neurons that might convey a sense of touch. Nerves found in spider sex organ 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z With the visual component finally refined, providing a sense of touch represents the next critical step toward convincing people that they've entered another world. Touch-toned: Virtual reality games place authenticity in users' hands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z "Robots don't have that sense of touch that humans do to know where they are inside the car," Seminatore said. Robots compete in response to California disaster simulation 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z One even gets some feedback from the arm — a sense of touch, Andersen said. Bionic Arm Taps New Part of Brain for Smooth Moves 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z That raises hopes that such sensors may eventually help restore a natural sense of touch to amputees, Bao says. Sensors may soon give prosthetics a lifelike sense of touch 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Though further research is need to confirm the hypothesis, the team suspects that the sense of touch may enable the males to stimulate the females and even provide feedback about the quality of their mate. Nerves found in spider sex organ 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z First of all, he said, he didn’t want to lose his sense of touch. Giving Up a 3-D Printed Prosthetic for a Different Vision of Perfect 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The researchers are also working on giving their soft robots a sense of touch, an ability now possible thanks to developments in the field of material science. The future of cuddly robots 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The higher level of connectivity was between the insula -- the source of urges and cravings -- and the somatosensory cortex, which is important for motor control and sense of touch. Some Smokers May Be 'Hardwired' to Succeed at Quitting 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Yet while these advances have restored a rudimentary sense of touch, the sensors and signals are very different from those sent by mechanoreceptors, natural touch sensors in the skin. Sensors may soon give prosthetics a lifelike sense of touch 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Haptics: the study or use of tactile sensations and the sense of touch as a method of interacting with computers and electronic devices. Dictionary.com Adds 'Revenge Porn,' 'Brogrammer' To Its Lexicon 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Through the sense of touch they are able to “see” his artworks in a kind of induction to the world of art and all the emotions that experiencing art brings. French Artist Arnaud Nazare-Aga's Little Prince Sculptures Seek To Open The Eyes And Touch The Heart 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It's an exercise in trying to look your best using your sense of touch and methodically counting the number of brush strokes or finger swipes to ensure an even coating. How do blind people put on make-up? 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The findings offer new insight into how the brain processes the sense of touch and can adapt when there is a problem, the Associated Press reported. Health Highlights: Nov. 17, 2014 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z As a young child, she possessed weak eyesight and a keen sense of touch. VCU department chair themes art around hair 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The goal: to restore a lost sense of touch. New Prosthetic Hands Restore Sense of Touch to Amputees 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z But machines still lack a critical element that will keep them from eclipsing most human capabilities anytime soon: a well-developed sense of touch. Brainy, Yes, But Far From Handy 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The iTable is a 'haptic' device — patients interact with it using their sense of touch — but unlike other such devices, the user interface and visual display are one and the same. Rehabilitation: Machine recovery : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But he’s confident he’ll be able to regrow the nerves in his lower arm and regain his sense of touch. Teen’s arm reattached after pasta machine mishap 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z With less experience of reading Braille, their sense of touch is often less developed. A watch for blind people 2014-04-09T00:04:46Z Another new prosthesis used a similar peripheral link to relay signals the other way—from the limb to the brain—to convey a sense of touch. Neural Workaround Makes for More Practical Bionic Limbs 2013-12-04T23:16:05.250Z Research suggests that our sense of touch is actually several orders of magnitude finer than previously believed. Brainy, Yes, But Far From Handy 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The trick to simulating a physical sense of touch is to adjust the amount of force-feedback resistance. Microsoft develops 3D touchscreen 2013-07-02T13:20:58Z Having a sense of touch would be “tremendous”, he says. Neuroprosthetics: Once more, with feeling 2013-05-08T17:20:25.467Z Thus, the animals learned to detect infrared light through their sense of touch, and move towards it. Brain implant gives rats a feel for infrared 2013-02-15T15:47:00Z That remains to be studied, Dr. Smulders said, but “it may be that wrinkled fingers are more easily injured, or they may affect the sense of touch.” Observatory: Wrinkled Fingers Get Better Grip on Wet Objects 2013-01-10T21:50:03Z The sense of touch is more of a mystery than that of hearing, smell, sight or taste. A Small Clue in the Mystery of Touch 2012-12-12T16:30:00Z Even hard robots will need to be soft in parts if they’re going to develop a real sense of touch. The Velveteen Robot 2012-08-13T10:00:52Z Nurmikko and other researchers are therefore using light, in place of electricity, to activate highly specific groups of neurons and recreate a sense of touch. Neuroprosthetics: Once more, with feeling 2013-05-08T17:20:25.467Z Scientists have already developed circuits that stimulate our sense of touch. 'Smart Fingertips' Pave Way for Virtual Sensations 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z They grew up - in Washington state, US - with a sense of touch but, as he explains in his own words, without ever feeling pain. The agony of feeling no pain 2012-07-17T00:11:31Z In this activity, you'll learn more about your sense of touch by testing your body's own reactions. Skin-Deep Science: Find Your Sensitive Side 2012-05-31T14:45:00.433Z A nun was there charged with the instruction of a child in this unfortunate state, to whom she could appeal only by the sense of touch. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z But patients don't need a perfect sense of touch, says Douglas Weber, a bioengineer at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Neuroprosthetics: Once more, with feeling 2013-05-08T17:20:25.467Z We then observe a continuous pull; the pull, of course, is not continuous; it only appears so to us; our sense of touch is imperfect. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z The nurse enters every quarter of an hour with a well-shaded lantern, using more the sense of touch than sight to find the bed. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Bill might have discovered it by his wonderfully keen sense of touch, but there was no need. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z From there, the way to the steps at the gun-room entrance was clear and the old iron gates above and below were both wide, as he discovered by sense of touch. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Accustomed to being guided by the feel of tissue, surgeons must learn to be guided by their eyes, as the robot offers no sense of touch. Remote-control surgery grows despite inconclusive evidence 2012-03-05T14:52:03Z Two coils traversed by such a current attract or repel each other with a force which, owing to the imperfection of our sense of touch, seems continuous. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z It’s really hard to articulate an answer to that because I tackle that challenge almost by a sense of touch or intuition. Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing 2011-12-20T15:15:05.230Z Not once in a hundred times did the blind girl seek to get by the sense of touch a knowledge of strangers. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z The sense of touch, also, is exclusively adapted to the acquainting of its owner with still another aspect of things material. Beyond 2011-11-27T03:00:13.650Z She pressed it between her fingers to learn, if possible by the sense of touch, what the envelope contained. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z This apparent continuity might be ascribed to the deficiency of the sense of touch, but there is evidence that in currents of such high frequencies one of the impulses preponderates over the other. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z The sense of "taste," which is a mere modification of the sense of touch, is also dull, although naturally, when stimulated by very acid or bitter substances, it produced distinct impressions. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Solely by sense of touch he carried on, until he had the joy of feeling the reunited ends of the threaded bars. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z His recovery will take many months and doctors expect him to regain sense of touch in six to nine months with ongoing therapy to help him learn to grasp and pick things up. Rare transplant gives quadruple amputee two new hands 2011-10-14T17:02:37Z And throughout this experiment, the monkey's own general sense of touch didn't seem to be affected. Monkeys Control Virtual Limbs With Their Minds 2011-10-05T18:01:00Z "Giving a subject the sense of touch...would be a novel advance." Texture Messaging: Breakthrough May Help Spinal Cord Patients Experience Tactile Sensations 2011-10-05T17:15:00.227Z He had to rely solely upon his sense of touch. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Interestingly, body based attention to touch sensations, and more generally the sense of touch, are disordered in chronic pain and IBS. Catherine Kerr on the Science of Meditation 2011-09-09T13:59:49Z They found that although the blind subjects were using their sense of touch, their brains showed activity in the same so-called visual region that sighted people use when they read. Reading Braille Activates the Brain's Visual Area 2011-08-31T13:15:00.233Z “Haptic feedback,” or feedback that is based on the sense of touch, “is the future of computing interfaces,” says Allison M. Okamura, a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Patent Watch 2011-08-27T11:15:05.203Z Her hand shook so fearfully, that its sense of touch was overwhelmed. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z The glass itself is known by means of the sense of touch. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z His sense of touch perhaps betrays him--or some demon is tricking him, and juggling with his senses to torment him? The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z A spell-bound subject is frequently made to share the sensations of the hypnotist, his ocular perceptions and his sense of touch. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Oh, I admire the man so much," said the offended lady, "he is an adept in the sense of touch,--really he not only feels, he thinks and sees, with the tips of his fingers. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The surface of the whole body contributes to the sense of touch. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Mrs. B. That is, doubtless, the reason of the opinion he formed, before the sense of touch had corrected his judgment. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Even the sense of touch, which most of us regard as infallible, is liable to gross deception. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z With difficulty regaining their feet, the two lads moved their cramped limbs till they were conscious of the sense of touch. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z By continual exercise of the nerves of sensation in his finger-tips, the blind man achieves the greatest perfection in his sense of touch. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The air activated neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex--part of the brain that is triggered by the sense of touch. Aerodynamic-Sensing Hairs on Wings Keep Bats Flying 2011-06-20T23:15:02.353Z Mrs. B. Our senses are imperfect, but the experience we acquire by the sense of touch, corrects the illusions of our sight, with regard to objects within our reach. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z They do not follow each other so closely, and they do not affect the eye or the sense of touch. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z Some of these methods continued to be employed by the successors of Mesmer and De Puysegur, the sense of touch being the principal adjuvant, though Mesmer employed also the sense of hearing. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z For example: the sense of touch grows remarkably keen with blind people, who depend upon it as a substitute for eyesight. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The whole is worked by the sense of touch, the threads being guided by one of the hind legs. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch. Captains Courageous 2011-04-22T02:00:10.677Z His sense of touch was not sufficiently delicate to enable him to decipher it in the darkness, and there was no help for it but to wait for the dawn. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Over and over again it has been shown that neither the congenitally blind nor those whose vision has become defective have any better sense of touch than the average person. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Thank God they didn’t blind my sense of touch! Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z By the sense of touch he was aware that there were rooms on only one side, the left-hand side, and that there were two of them. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Goggles that distort vision, gloves that reduce the sense of touch, and loud white noise - just three things which create a sense of frustration, confusion and loss of control. Distorted view 2011-03-31T01:37:22Z If the cruel thing is repeated, the nerves are paralyzed, or at least rendered morbid, especially when rude untender handling outrages the sense of touch. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z The accurate sense of touch in probing doubtful snow with the axe requires and deserves very much more practice than most people would imagine. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z This much was discernible by the sense of touch. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Now, as angular forms give, to the sense of touch, sharpness, roughness, or harshness, so do opposite forms give smoothness or fineness. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z The sense of touch, for instance, in the blind man, has sometimes proved no mean substitute for eyes; and, indeed, any of the senses by cultivation, in peculiar exigencies, may be prodigiously strengthened. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z He had to depend, of course, wholly on the sense of touch, since the darkness here was that of a deep mine. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Doubtless experience teaches him much, but one observer suggests that the woodpecker places the grub by the sense of touch. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Although modern prosthetic devices are more lifelike and easier for amputees to control than ever before, they still lack a sense of touch. Rewiring the Human Arm 2011-01-25T12:45:00.383Z She poured the petrol a little at random, groping her way and yet as far as possible selecting the places where her sense of touch seemed to tell her that the wood was most rotten. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The implication of these wonderful facts is that sight and hearing were slowly differentiated from the sense of touch. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z Haptics is to the sense of touch what optics is to vision. Let Your Fingers Do the Driving 2010-09-28T15:11:00Z "The tactility here is not the organic sense of touch: it implies merely an epidermal continuity of the eye and image, the collapse of the aesthetic distance involved in looking." Colin Horgan: iPad therefore I am 2010-06-16T21:30:00Z It is only present in those parts where the sense of touch is feeble. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The sense of touch is the only one common to all. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Of course, he had been working by the sense of touch for hours. Deep Moat Grange They have come to it through the sense of touch alone. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology "Keep quiet, Butcher—it's all right," said P. Walton calmly—and, stooping, guiding his knife blade by the sense of touch, cut away the rope from the other's ankles. The Night Operator Therefore, the sense of touch in the fingers is said to be fifty times more delicate than upon the posterior surface of the body. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers So intense was the darkness now that they had to depend solely on the sense of touch. The Return of Tharn She had penetrated but a few feet when she stumbled over something, and, stooping down, she felt a soft substance which her sense of touch informed her was the body of a man. A Traitor's Wooing The play of the children is so contrived as to employ their sense of touch, of weight, and of harmony. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them The sense of touch, which is rather obtuse in most animals, is much more acute in these. The Speech of Monkeys They contain nerves also, and are largely concerned in the sense of touch; hence they are particularly abundant where the touch is most delicate, as at the ends of the fingers. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Wordsworth worships with his ear, Shelley with his eye, Keats with his sense of touch. The Vagabond in Literature He made his way by sense of touch rather than sight into the adjoining apartment. An Amateur Fireman Every particle of her energy was concentrated on seeing that face—on seeing it through her sense of touch. The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium I have tried this experiment a great many times with a view to ascertaining to some extent the delicacy of their sense of touch. The Speech of Monkeys The latter also differs in some respects from the sense of touch. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Why does a person who is ailing lose his sense of touch? The Handbook of Conundrums While doing this, explain to the audience that you have with considerable practice acquired a marvellously keen sense of touch which enables you to ascertain the name of each card by simply feeling it. More Conjuring Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings He released his grasp on my throat, and involuntarily I stretched out my hands, when they came in contact with my captor, and by the sense of touch I understood that he wore a uniform. The Minute Boys of York Town He could forget about the sense of touch. Tangle Hold Organs of Touch.—The sense of touch is possessed by nearly all portions of the general surface of the body, but it finds its highest development in the hands. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers He grasped the sides of his coffinlike bed with fingers that had lost their sense of touch. Wheels Within In the second section of the treatise Condillac invests his statue with the sense of touch, which first informs it of the existence of external objects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Charles had a delicate sense of touch, he bore himself firmly, his eye was true; he had the appearance of mastery, but the essence of it was not in him. The Bright Shawl But she heard his, and there was nothing in either storm or darkness to blunt the sense of touch. Ancestors A Novel Importance of the sense of touch to the development of the other senses? A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers An illustration will help to answer this question: I know that fire will burn my hand; the knowledge of this fact entered my consciousness through the sense of touch, and my memory recalls it. Training the Teacher Something, she thought, might be done by a development of the sense of touch, and by arranging a Natural History Museum in such a manner that every specimen could be handled. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind But again and again he had to make long detours, and as the darkness was intense he had to rely entirely on his sense of touch; so his progress was slow. Doubloons—and the Girl The hairs of the skin are accessory to the sense of touch. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life The sense of touch assists the other senses, especially that of sight, giving foundation and reality to their perceptions. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Although the brain is of a low type, probably no animals possess so delicate a sense of touch as Chiroptera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" He never made a mistake with his customers' bags or wool, knowing each man's by the sense of touch. A Year in the Fields Drew took out his bag again, and, taking the greatest precautions not to drop one, counted the matches by the sense of touch. Doubloons—and the Girl The question was whether the sense of touch did not account for all sensations of bodily movement. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life As chuckling or giggling is more likely to tell him than his sense of touch, it is tremendously important to make no noise if you can help it. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes However preternaturally sensitive a man may be to all manner of sounds, he cannot tell everything from sound alone, not even though his sense of touch besides is laboriously refined. The Recipe for Diamonds His motor control and his sense of touch returned more slowly. The Cartels Jungle Using the sense of touch to save him from other collisions, he proceeded cautiously among the trees for a half-mile or more, and then, at last, pitched his pitiful camp. The Wilderness Trail The nerves of the skin are the organs of the sense of touch and feeling. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) One of them, the sense of touch, is in continual action so long as we are awake. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Only his sense of touch told him what was on the bottom. The Flying Stingaree Finally, the hairs assist the sense of touch. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle "I feel badly" would mean "My sense of touch is impaired." The Century Handbook of Writing Some physiologists make a distinction between the sense of touch and tact. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) The sense of touch confines its operations to a very narrow sphere around us, but those of sight extend far beyond; this sense is therefore liable to be mistaken. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Destroy, then, if it were possible, this sense of touch, and our absolute perception of objects is entirely lost—the connection between the outer world and the perceptive faculties of the mind is dissolved forever. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 The sense of touch must have satisfied her, for abruptly she kissed him, flung her arms about him, clung to him, and crooned little endearments. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 I discovered it only by sense of touch—and that after you told me to hunt for it. The Million-Dollar Suitcase What is said of the sense of touch? A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Guided by the sense of touch only, he was able to identify successively a razor case, a shaving brush, a cotton nightshirt and a number of other articles of an ordinary and usual nature. The Ivory Snuff Box It comes to all who cannot hear through the sense of touch. Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb This sense does not consist only of the sense of touch, because the tactile sensation is only that by which we perceive the differences in quality of surfaces, rough or smooth. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook So well did he know the particular design of his watch that he could have recognized it in the dark by sense of touch alone. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Why is the hand so admirably adapted to the exercise of the sense of touch? A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) If you want to see how a sense of touch can make all the difference, you should study carefully the character of Leslie, a genuine creation. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 It has been said that when sight is lost the sense of touch and hearing increase to almost unbelievable acuteness—Rush knew that. Now We Are Three Yoga Rama not being able to be guided by sight as in his stage performances, now guided himself by the sense of touch. Telepathy Genuine and Fraudulent There was scarce a sense of touch beneath her, a lack of jar, of vibration, so evenly and smoothly did the shining hoofs take the grassy plain. Tharon of Lost Valley The nerves that supply the sense of touch, proceed from the anterior half of the spinal cord. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Odors bring sensations which are agreeable, the sense of touch may give pleasure, and as we enjoy these sensations in fact, so we may enjoy them in memory or in imagination. What a Young Woman Ought to Know All the pleasure of the sense of touch, which you would then find had been great and of many kinds, would be lost to you. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The blind have been known to cultivate the sense of touch in the physical being to the amazing acuteness of being able to distinguish color. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity He cannot make his sense of touch too sensitive. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression The sense of touch varies in different persons, and also in individuals of different ages. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) As we are active by our sense of touch, God, too, is described as doing. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy From the sense of touch we proceed naturally to that of taste, for there seems to be less difference between these two senses than between any of the others. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease I will mention one or two instances which strikingly illustrate the acuteness of Laura's sense of touch. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes So marvellous indeed was his sense of touch that he was still able to maintain his interest in botany. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Give the hygiene of the sense of touch. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) They declare that the very sensations we have from the sense of touch are "vicarious," as though our friends felt the sun for us! The World I Live In In general, the thinner the cuticle is, the more acute is the sense of touch. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease To such an extent has the sense of touch been cultivated in her, that her fingers serve as very good substitutes for both eyes and ears. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes And lastly, the sense of touch is liable to be deceived by preconceived ideas; which we believe to be excited by external objects, even when we are awake. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The sense of touch plays a large part in our enjoyment of the world. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Thus it was not the sense of touch that brought me knowledge. The World I Live In The other senses have been thought to be only more refined modifications of the sense of touch; and the organs of each are placed near the brain on the external surface of the head. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease We regard it as a fact fully established that the sense of touch may be cultivated to a much greater extent than most persons are aware of. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes When, if the eyes be closed, the nut or bullet appears to be two, from the deception of the sense of touch. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The scene appeals to something within me which lies beyond my actual physical contact with it and the mere sense of touch. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life I smell and taste much as in my waking hours; but the sense of touch plays a less important part. The World I Live In There is perhaps only one sense which is common to all classes of animals, and which exists over every part of the surface of the body; I mean the sense of touch. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The accomplishment of all this has resulted from the successful cultivation of the sense of touch or of feeling. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes When a blind man turns round, or when one, who is not blind, revolves in the dark, a vertigo is produced belonging to the sense of touch. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The three made their way toward the door, moving by sense of touch. The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers Our eyes observe a difference of colour, or of shade, in the prominences and depressions of objects, and that those shades uniformly vary when the sense of touch observes any variation. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Every movement we make displaces air but our sense of touch does not inform us of it, but if we stand in a sunbeam the dust particles will show that it is so. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance The hands, and especially the fingers, have a most delicate and nice sense of touch, though the sense is extended over the whole body, in every part of which it is less or more acute. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Some parts have retained the sense of heat, but not the sense of touch. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life They have no tender sense of touch, their relation to the world about them is obtuse; and for this reason, I think, they excite aversion in normally minded people. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Those animals which possess a better sense of touch are, in general, more ingenious than others. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Psychometric impressions which proceed by the sense of touch into that of a superior order of feeling are far more general. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance We have referred to the blind, who read as rapidly as seeing persons by passing their fingers over raised letters, the sense of touch being substituted by them for that of vision. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes The sense of touch is also liable to be deceived from the acquired habits of one part of it acting in the vicinity of another part of it. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The machine-made ground can be distinguished by sense of touch alone. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Mercy realized their presence in the dark room rather by the sense of touch than by the sense of hearing or sight. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time At Chester last Sunday I found myself extremely giddy, and extremely uncertain of my sense of touch, both in the left leg and the left hand and arms. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete As nearly as he could determine by the sense of touch, it was seven o’clock. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure I all but lost the sense of touch, and could no longer distinguish light from heavy objects when I desired to move them. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century My sense of touch seemed to have become keener and more delicate, as is well-known to be the case with those who are blind. The Boy Tar Experiments have shown that this singular power of direction is due to a remarkable development of the sense of touch especially to be found in their great expanse of wing. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Nothing was tangible; the palate lost its sense of taste, the finger its sense of touch. The Goose Man Consequently, the consciousness of the presence of an outside thing arises from contact with that outside thing through the channel of the sense of touch, or of some of its more complex evolved phases. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers Why should the sight, or the hearing, or even the sense of smell, be rewarded, rather than the taste, or the sense of touch? The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus His gloved hands smarted, but their sense of touch did no seem blunted. The Snowshoe Trail Neither can it be felt by the sense of touch. Aether and Gravitation Very striking are Mr. Spencer's remarks regarding the influence of the sense of touch upon the development of intelligence. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 This disk, so the sense of touch indicated, had at one time been one of those Chinese carved metal mirrors and was now set into the stone. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle The same must be said of the sense of touch or feeling, which is diffused over the whole body. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus The sense of touch is diffused all over the body. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Does any one doubt the existence of the hydrogen atom or the atom of oxygen, because it is invisible to the sense of sight, or cannot be revealed to the limited sense of touch? Aether and Gravitation Our sense of touch is also very weak and only extends over a very limited space. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour By sense of touch alone she dressed, belting65 in the habit with her girdle, listening, every sense alert. Special Messenger Above all, a sense of touch, such as a man can acquire playing the piano, swinging a pick, riding a bicycle, driving an automobile, or playing tennis, is important. Opportunities in Aviation His sense of touch told him that it was ornamented with carving on its surface, but the light was not sufficient to enable him to see it distinctly. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters In some this filament in its advance to maturity has acquired hands and fingers with a fine sense of touch, as in mankind. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin But singular fiery moments do surprise With dreadful or delicious divinations The whorls of our blue Labyrinth: the sweet Blind sense of touch tells like an undersong Marvellous matters. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence Some men seem to be unable to make the right selection; they seem to lack the correct sense of touch and balance. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler If he has the sense of touch of the normal man, the sense of balance of a normal man, can skate, or ride a bicycle, he should be in the air, flying. Opportunities in Aviation His sense of touch also told him that the other's clothing was of a material similar to the khaki uniform he himself was wearing. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol Tactile: used for touching; an organ that has the sense of touch. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology So far as the sense of touch and hearing are concerned, we have here an action absolutely unaccounted for by any scientific law. The Shadow World The sense of touch has been similarly tested, and comparatively negligible differences have been found. Human Traits and their Social Significance What it was the sense of touch did not enable him to guess, and as yet the light was insufficient to permit him to distinguish anything clearly. Tales of the Caliph My sense of touch is the most delicate in all the world. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Their rules, having their origin in experience, were applied as dictated by their marvellous sense of touch and cunning, with results infinitely superior to any obtained with the aid of the most approved mechanical contrivances. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators If there is any virtue in a taut tape and my sense of touch, her arms lay like marble during the precise time the voice was speaking to me. The Shadow World The lowest rate of vibration is received and interpreted by the sense of gender and the next stage by the sense of touch. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony I am inclined to believe that the primal, fundamental sense,—the sense of touch,—from which all the other senses have been evolved or developed, has been in existence almost as long as life. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals The only knowledge that I had obtained of the vault was from the sense of touch. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Previously it was essential that the surgeon should depend upon his own diagnosis, upon what he could learn from his sense of touch and from surrounding conditions. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies And to this very unpleasant sensation was added that of a morbid sense of touch, so acute that even the very pressure of his clothes became almost unendurable. The Missing Merchantman There are those who are gifted in the sense of touch above their fellows, who can judge of the quality of goods in the dark. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony The senses of taste and smell, according to Graber, Lubbock, Farre, and many other investigators, seem to be almost as old as the sense of touch. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals He was obliged to work by the sense of touch alone, as he dared not, of course, use a light of any description. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru The fifth, the sense of touch, is distributed all over the body. Fantasia of the Unconscious Then the increased or more frequent exercise of the fingers of its hands would develop nervous masses at their extremities, thus rendering the sense of touch more delicate. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work Even the woman's sense of touch, as in the finger-tips, being twice as obtuse as man's. Ranching, Sport and Travel Nor could it have been the sense of touch; the mother could not have possibly familiarized herself with the individual form of each puppy in so short space of time. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals He thought he knew every projection and crevice and bush so well that he might have found his way blindfolded, and guided by the sense of touch alone. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories On the back the sense of touch is not acute. Fantasia of the Unconscious Last of all, the skin is the principal organ of the sense of touch, and also of the "temperature sense"—the sense of heat and cold—and of the sense that feels pain. A Handbook of Health Imagine, if you can, a person born blind and deaf, and without the sense of touch, taste, or smell. The Mind and Its Education And, consequently, Christ's sense of touch, the sensitiveness of which is the reason for our feeling pain, was most acute. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Their sense of touch as we know it is really a combination of touch, sight, and hearing. The Human Side of Animals But W. had learned, through the sense of touch, that what is not round is angular. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. "You must have a pretty good sense of touch," said Roy. Tom Slade at Temple Camp A long pause followed in which the cabman appeared to be counting the coins in his pocket by the sense of touch. The Price Cutting forceps of all kinds are objectionable because they may wound the normal tissues before the sense of touch can give warning. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery It is one of our chief organs of sense, the sense of touch being hardly second to those of sight and hearing. Vitality Supreme These originated from the materials furnished by the sense of touch, the muscular sense and general sensibility, before she had learned a sort of finger-language. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. Sculpture is the art of corporeal form, appealing to the eye as the necessary medium for satisfying the corporeal sense of touch. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He dwelt upon his estimate of the quality of the auriferous deposits as he had been able to make it in the darkness, and from his sense of touch. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The trained laryngologist will readily determine by sense of touch the degree of pressure necessary to overcome it. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery In vain her eyes sought to penetrate the absolute dark; no slightest detail of floor or wall was offered save vaguely through the sense of touch. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure He saw everything much larger than he had supposed from the idea obtained by his sense of touch. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. Suppose I am blind and deaf, but have my sense of touch intact; that I never saw or touched or heard of a tennis-ball before, but I know “apple” and “orange.” Applied Psychology for Nurses Now these pleasures result from the sense of touch. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province The extent of expansion can be limited by the sense of touch or by an adjustable checking mechanism on the handle. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery You remember that we have already talked about one of them, the sense of touch in the skin. The Child's Day The patient's sense of touch had attained an extraordinary degree of perfection. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. By means of these motor sensations, joined with the sense of touch, the individual is able to distinguish especially weight, position, and change of position. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education There are sounds or sound vibrations that we do not hear; our sense of touch cannot recognize a gossamer, or the gentler air movements. The Breath of Life The action is very delicate, there being no springs, and the sense of touch imparted is often of great aid in the diagnosis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery The fifth of your “Five Senses,” the sense of touch, is in your skin. The Child's Day Similar trials with the organs of smell and hearing showed that they had nothing to do with it, and the only other sense that could be appealed to was the general sense of touch. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. A man born blind has a sense of touch which gives him pleasure from sculpture, which is better suited to theology, which has greater durability, and so forth. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres The vibrissæ are long and sensitive, and may indicate a special development of the sense of touch as an adaptation to nocturnal habits and to life in an underground labyrinth. Life History of the Kangaroo Rat Hitherto I had been able to detect the presence of this panel only by my sense of touch and by means of a faint draught which blew through it; now it suddenly became clearly perceptible. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Particularly fascinating to him was the tactile sense, that sense of touch wherewith man acquaints himself with this earth-clot swimming in space. Visionaries In like manner also on the part of apprehension: because the apprehension of reason and imagination is of a higher order than the apprehension of the sense of touch. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition He began to regain the sense of touch, though he felt only furriness everywhere. Operation Terror Such a fact, and such elements of the fact, recur in the whole animal kingdom, even among those which only apprehend external things by the sense of touch. Myth and Science An Essay Yet a moment later, even in that darkness, and obliged to rely entirely upon the sense of touch, the truth of my situation became clear. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War The Japanese have the finest sense of touch in the world. Visionaries Therefore the infection of original sin regards these three chiefly, viz. the generative power, the concupiscible faculty and the sense of touch. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition We squared ourselves, wholly by the sense of touch, with the river's edge, locked arms for the better bracing against the swift current, and so essayed the ford. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The door was unlocked, and they trusted wholly to the sense of touch to locate the object of their search. The Strange Case of Cavendish But the sense of touch grasps several contraries; such as hot or cold, damp or dry, and suchlike. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Then the sense of touch is partially lost. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada This kind of feeling is called the sense of touch. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene By now the night was fully come and in the wooded defile we could place ourselves only by the sense of touch. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady "Yes, but——" We were staring into each other's eyes, and—could I believe my sense of touch, or was it mercifully blunted? The Motor Maid Therefore it should not be classed as a distinct sense of touch. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Whereas the faculties of sight and of hearing are each localized in a particular center, the sense of touch embraceth the whole human frame. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh The sense of touch is more delicate in the tip of the tongue than in any other part. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene We now pass on to the consideration of the sense of touch. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Each pupil is given an opportunity to feel the article through the cloth and guess what it is, educating the sense of touch. School, Church, and Home Games Such as have only the sense of touch, as shellfish, move only with the motion of expansion and contraction; and thus their movement hardly exceeds that of plants. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Fortunately both were sailors, accustomed to finding their way on shipboard in the night, as much by sense of touch as by sight. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India This is because it is necessary to use the sense of touch in the tongue to assist the sense of taste in finding out whether things are good to eat or not. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene We answer, that this can take place only provided the sense of touch can be brought under our notice as itself hard. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Then, too, the sense of touch if the operator's hands are chilled, is not dependable. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 Now all the other senses are based on the sense of touch. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Ambrose, after waving his arms about to restore the circulation, set to exploring his quarters by sense of touch. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest The sense of touch is also very useful to us in many other ways. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene I shall use the sense of sight for the illustration, although precisely the same reasoning would apply to the sense of touch. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It is possible to recognize fracture by the use of other methods—auscultation, tuning fork tests, etc., but in ordinary veterinary practice one must rely upon the sense of touch for recognition of crepitation. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 For this reason among animals, man has the best sense of touch. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Experienced men can determine by the sense of touch when the temperature is right, but the inexperienced should rely entirely on the thermometer. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition The sense of touch is most acute at the tip of the tongue and the ends of the fingers. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene She had no power to feel pain or to distinguish heat from cold in the left leg and arm, though the sense of touch was perfect. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria The calm and repose of the stately old place seemed to steal in on her soul not only through eye and ear and sense of touch, but at every pore. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware And among men, those who have the best sense of touch have the best intelligence. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Of the organ of sense by which we perceive heat and cold, not by the sense of touch. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life We feel objects by means of the sense of touch. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene A deadly numbness attacked his nerves, and he had almost lost the sense of touch. The Day of the Beast One cannot behold the form of the Soul by one's eye, nor can the sense of touch, amongst the senses, apprehend it. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He let himself in with his latch-key, hung up his hat and overcoat by the sense of touch, and, groping his way upstairs, opened the door of the first floor sitting-room. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Our eyes observe a difference of colour, or of shade, in the prominences and depressions of objects, and that those shades uniformly vary, when the sense of touch observes any variation. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life And so where his eyes failed to let him see, his sense of touch would carry to his mind and heart the fine features of the gracious sovereign he was so glad to serve. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel So marvelous indeed was his sense of touch that he was still able to maintain his interest in botany. Famous Modern Ghost Stories When again she feels the touch of the various objects of touch, she becomes the sense of touch. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The minister replied that the sense of touch ought to be enough to reveal the divinity to him in the admirable mechanism of his organs. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) In some this filament in its advance to maturity has acquired hands and fingers, with a fine sense of touch, as in mankind. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life As a result of this, the sense of touch became for a while more acute, and was at times unpleasantly delicate. Doctor and Patient This sense of touch is of necessity cultivated by the blind until it often reaches a state of perfection seldom, if ever, found in the seeing. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl As the judge withdrew his hand he left behind a little wad of paper which Sam recognized by sense of touch as the customary American substitute for the coin of the realm. All He Knew A Story And its recognition of the objects is very dim and incomplete, obtained through the sense of touch and smell. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Blind men balance themselves by their sense of touch; which, being less adapted for perceiving small deviations from their perpendicular, occasions them to carry themselves more erect in walking. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life He delights to stimulate and develop the sense of touch. The Nervous Child I am aware that it is stated by some eminent writers that the sense of touch in some persons has reached this perfection, but I have many reasons to doubt it. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl Yet there is one circumstance in which the sense of touch as well as others is very apt to betray its possessor into inaccuracy, in respect to the circumstances which it impresses on its owner. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft It comes, I think, as has already been said, from the sense of touch. The Practice and Science of Drawing The sense of touch is thus very commodiously disposed for the purpose of encompassing smaller bodies, and for adapting itself to the inequalities of larger ones. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life He still retained the ignorance of urchinhood—his sense of touch as yet so innocent that he failed to tell Albine's gown from the covers of the old armchairs. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The sense of touch is not much developed except in those who are blind. The Thirteenth Chair Mr. Shaw's logic is sterile, because it is without sense of touch, sense of sight, or sense of hearing; once set going it is warranted to go straight, and to go through every obstacle. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory With us the practical sense of touch is all powerful. The Practice and Science of Drawing When a body compresses any part of our sense of touch, what happens? Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Nicky's sense of touch had been hardened by violent impacts and collisions, by experiments with jack-knives and saws and chisels and gouges, and by struggling with the material of his everlasting inventions. The Tree of Heaven She had no sooner, however, begun to knit than her very acute sense of touch noticed something wrong with the wool she was using. Lady Rose's Daughter The sense of touch, and its development has meant much for Man. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga Our survival depends so much on this sense of touch, that it is of the first importance to us. The Practice and Science of Drawing And in this the perception of heat essentially differs from the perceptions of the sense of touch, as we receive pain from too great pressure of solid bodies, but none from the absence of it. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life The sense of touch the only reliance, and the life-line his guide. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 As we found, when dealing with the sense of touch in the previous volume, the specific sexual sensations may be regarded as a special modification of ticklishness. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy And the handler of cloth and fabrics is able to distinguish the finest differences, simply by the sense of touch. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga The main characteristics of the primitive sense of touch are its wide diffusion over the whole body and the massive vagueness and imprecision of the messages it sends to the brain. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man The muscles tend to be everywhere firm, with a comparative absence of soft connective tissue; so that an inverted woman may give an unfeminine impression to the sense of touch. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion The wedding-dress and veil lying in their box, swathed in tissue-paper, had a gossamer unreality about them that even the sense of touch could not dispel. Greatheart But the pressure of warm white fingers lingered long in my sense of touch as I retraced my steps to the trail's end. Vanguards of the Plains And on the other hand, the sense of touch may be almost, or completely inhibited, by firmly fixing the Attention upon something else. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga As practiced by man, the kiss involves mainly either the sense of touch or that of smell. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man It was more by the sense of touch than by that of sight that the lad kept the path. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Getting out of the bunk, I found by the sense of touch that the powdery snow-drifts were becoming steadily deeper on the floor. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 The blind have been known to cultivate the sense of touch in the physical being to the amazing acuteness of being able to distinguish between colors. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians She forced herself to walk across the room to lay her weakened fingers, from which all sense of touch seemed to have withdrawn, upon that vibrating panel. Out of the Ashes In this way it happens that even in the field of visual attraction sexual selection influences women on the underlying basis of the more primitive sense of touch, the fundamentally sexual sense. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man And voluptuous is your hand, nice in its sense of touch. Profiles from China Deuteronomy, again, he says, is so entitled in reference to the sense of touch of the child which is formed. Simon Magus The sense of touch in the soul can by careful, earnest cultivation be refined to such a degree as to make it susceptible to the slightest impressions of the Spirit of God. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians He now asks why the sense of touch is affected usually as if by a cold body. Cock Lane and Common-Sense It may also have certain requirements as to eyesight, hearing, reaction time, muscular co-ordination, sense of touch, and even, in some particular places, sense of smell and sense of taste. Analyzing Character Perhaps of all the senses, the sense of touch, though in some ways the surest, is in others the most easily deceived. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts The sense of touch gives rise to the idea of "outness," in the sense of distance in the third dimension, and thence to that of space, or geometrical solidity. Critiques and Addresses With hands outstretched he felt his way forward, by sense of touch alone assuring himself that he traversed a hall, carpeted, his extended arms barely reaching from wall to wall. The Case and the Girl Hauntings may be visual, auditory, or confined to the sense of touch. Cock Lane and Common-Sense One man learns best through his eyes, another through his ears, and still another by his sense of touch. Analyzing Character The external senses are so torpid, that, for months perhaps, it is in vain to address either eye or ear; nor is the sense of touch much more active. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 The sense of touch gives rise to the idea of "outness," in the sense of localization. Critiques and Addresses By the sense of touch he soon ascertained that the head was without a scalp, and otherwise mutilated. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest The qualifications for a pickpocket are a light tread, a delicate sense of touch, combined with firm nerves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Presently she began to undress by sense of touch. Ailsa Paige He finished loading the revolver by the sense of touch. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The sense of touch gives rise to ideas of extension, figure, magnitude, and motion. Critiques and Addresses Miss Sophonisba bent all her will to the effort, and with an heroic exertion she put out her hand to try by the sense of touch if indeed she was in her waking senses. Not Pretty, but Precious You couldn't see a thing until you rammed your head into it, and then the sense of touch gave you a sort of sight suggestion, as when you see things in a dream. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace There was once a Blind Man who had so fine a sense of touch that, when any animal was put into his hands, he could tell what it was merely by the feel of it. Aesop's Fables; a new translation It nullified, from one direction at least, the other two visual processes of the blind, the sense of touch and the sense of smell. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The sense of touch gives rise to the idea of resistance, and thence to that of solidity, in the sense of impenetrability. Critiques and Addresses The sense proper to conjugial love is the sense of touch, n. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love The patience, the nice sense of touch, and the flexible fingers of the Hindoos have with the simplest means achieved results in this branch of manufacture which have not been surpassed by any people. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 In themselves sensations are merely subjective states, modes of our own being; without the sense of touch we would ascribe odor, sound, and color to ourselves. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Where his own hand had shrunk to, was not made manifest, but it was as remote from Mrs Sparkler's sense of touch as if he had been a highly meritorious Chelsea Veteran or Greenwich Pensioner. Little Dorrit His sense of touch, too, had captured the beauty of her hand, and held it in remembrance,—the soft palm, the fine skin, supple fingers, smooth nails, and firm round wrist. The Village Watch-Tower But these, like the foregoing subjects, must be considered distinctly as arranged under the following articles: I. The sense proper to conjugial love is the sense of touch. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love It was unutterably dark, and all these operations had to be performed by the sense of touch only. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The sense of touch is also brought into play in hypnosis; Richet set great value on the so-called mesmeric strokes or passes. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Indeed her sense of touch is now so exquisite, that having been acquainted with a person once, she can recognise him or her after almost any interval. American Notes But not what her eyes saw, and her ears heard, and her nose smelled, and her sense of touch shrank from. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Besides, it was possible that, while her words were free, her sense of touch might be exquisitely delicate. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Amber sunk his teeth into his lower lip and subdued an almost uncontrollable impulse to scream and fling the thing away; for his sense of touch told him that the hand was dead. The Bronze Bell Mesnet relates some interesting experiments made upon a French sergeant in a condition of somnambulism, demonstrating the excitation of ideas in the mind through the sense of touch in the extremities. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The dilapidated roller shade was drawn down, and, guided by the sense of touch, the rent that gaped across it was carefully pinned together. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale In the autumn of 1837 Dr. Howe discovered Laura Bridgman, who had only the one sense of touch remaining in a normal condition; and his remarkable success, in her education made him famous. Unitarianism in America Her hands, usually deft and certain in their movements, seemed to have lost the sense of touch. The Woman with the Fan It requires some years of experience to treat this disease properly, because you have not your eyesight to aid you, but must depend absolutely upon the sense of touch. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 As to idiosyncrasies of the sense of touch, it is well known that some people cannot handle velvet or touch the velvety skin of a peach without having disagreeable and chilly sensations come over them. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine As the packages are passed, the names, guessed by the sense of touch, are written opposite their appropriate numbers on the slips of paper. Games for Everybody That thought was like a new sense of touch, and I felt the thread within my hand, and was certain that every thing has within itself the way out. The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories It must be easy to charge—preferably even by the sense of touch in darkness. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power By the last dim ghost of light through the window, and by the sense of touch, Stern was able to make out the engraved symbols “P” and “S” on these bottles. Darkness and Dawn Different colored yarns, for example, may have other differences of texture, etc., that would be manifest to the sense of touch. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The blind come to have a sense of touch much more acute than those who see. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation The sense of smell has come to the front and pushed aside the lower sense of touch. Concerning Animals and Other Matters The sense of touch remained; and by means of that they have contrived to reach the mind, to inform it, to instruct it, to refine and elevate it. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Consciousness of it comes through your sense of touch; but after all it is merely a "rate of vibration" which your brain recognizes and names. Ancient and Modern Physics The sense of touch, however, was exceedingly delicate and acute. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Would that he could see with his eyes once again; for, after all, the sense of touch was but a poor substitute for that of sight! The House of Whispers |
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