Investigating the Illusion of Wetness: Cold Dry Stimuli in Sensory Perception
Humans lack specialized receptors for perceiving wetness and so it is a compound sensation based on changes in skin temperature and contact pressure that are sensed by thermoreceptors and mechanoreceptors in the skin. In addition to perceiving the wetness of damp fabrics in contact with the skin or...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157152 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5508-3961 |