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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychophysiology > Sensation > Touch
Psychological Phenomena > Psychophysiology > Sensation > Touch
... > Natural Science Disciplines > Biological Science Disciplines > Physiology > Psychophysiology > Sensation > Touch
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena > Nervous System Physiological Phenomena > Sensation > Touch

Preferred term

Touch  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Sense of Touch
  • Senses, Tactile
  • Sense, Tactile
  • Tactile Sense
  • Tactile Senses
  • Taction
  • Tactions
  • Touch Sense
  • Touch Senses

Note

  • differentiate from TOUCH PERCEPTION: TOUCH takes place in the skin and mucous membranes, TOUCH PERCEPTION takes place in the brain

Scope note

  • Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014110

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