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You may scarcely notice it, but much of what you do every day requires your brain to engage in perceptual learning. To safely ...

Amanda Seidl (standing), a Purdue associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences who studies language acquisition, found that touch can influence how infants learn language. Her research ...

While that makes following a mapping app easier, it also means drivers can’t feel their way to a control; they have to look. ...

London: Newborns do not identify the sensation of touch the same way older babies, children and adults do, a new study has found. When you tickle the toes of newborn babies, the experience for them is ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

This may not be a shock to most people with say, common sense, but a new study has found that touch screen devices are just riddled with germs and other bacteria. Hope you got a flu shot already.

In a recent study published in Cell, researchers studied the social relevance of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons in sexual touch and receptivity. The sensation of a ...