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Fingerprints Enhance Our Sense of Touch – Neurons Sensitive to Scale of a Single Fingerprint Ridge – SciTechDaily
Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge. Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects:…
Receptive fields of sensory neurons in the hand, mapped onto a fingertip. Credit: Jarocka et al., JNeurosci 2021
Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge.
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…
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