That sharp flinch during a violent movie scene is familiar to many people. A hand slams, a body falls, and your own muscles ...

Haptic perception and dynamic touch encompass the sophisticated processes through which the human sensorimotor system interprets object properties by means of active manipulation. This modality relies ...

The percept of time relates to the sense of touch. A new SISSA study "A sensory integration account for time perception" published in PLOS Computational Biology uncovers this connection. "The ...

To study fine touch, selecting samples based on how many mechanical instabilities they can form is more predictive than using the friction coefficient, which has been the default choice.

Researchers find that scents are not only processed by the olfactory center, but also by the brain’s reward and aversion systems, explaining how scents take on meaning. The CRACK platform was used as ...

Imagine a world where robots can feel, just like you and me. It’s not a scene from a sci-fi movie, but the exciting reality that Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is working tirelessly ...

Machine perception is the capability of a computer to take in and process sensory information in a way that’s similar to how humans perceive the world. It may rely on sensors that mimic common human ...