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Fingerprints enhance our sense of touch – EurekAlert
Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects: they also improve our sense of touch. Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch…
IMAGE: Receptive fields of sensory neurons in the hand, mapped onto a fingertip.
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Credit: Jarocka et al., JNeurosci 2021
Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects: they also improve our sense of touch. Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
The hand contains tens of thousands of sensory neurons. Each neuron tunes in to a small surface area on the skin…
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