Touch
It is expressive, intuitive, and complex in its design and function. No sense defines us more than our tactile ability, and yet most of us go through life completely unaware of the myriad ways we depend on and benefit from it. Journeying through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory r...
| Other Authors: | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase. |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2013], c2008.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (1 video file (45 min.)) : sd., col. |
| Series: |
Science of the Senses.
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| Subjects: |
Brain
-- Physiology.
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Table of Contents:
- Language of Touch (1:01)
- A Man Who Can't Feel (2:21)
- Ian Waterman's Condition (1:24)
- The Somatic System (1:19)
- Our Most Important Touch Tool (2:13)
- Moving Without Feeling (1:03)
- Hidden Gift of Touch (1:23)
- Proprioception (1:51)
- Loss of Proprioception (1:03)
- Moving Without Proprioception (1:51)
- Importance of Proprioception (1:43)
- Vision and Movement (2:05)
- Performing Like an Athlete (2:12)
- Can Touch Replace Vision? (3:16)
- Blind People Understand Perspective (1:03)
- Access Through Touch (2:16)
- The Tactile Realm (1:44)
- Communicating Through Touch (1:56)
- Hands Can Read Faces (1:41)
- Indirect Touch (1:46)
- Robotics (1:36)
- Virtual Surgery (3:10)
- Targeted Reinnervation (2:20)
- Closing Comments on Touch (1:50)
- Additional Resources and Credits: Touch: Science of the Senses (0:36)