Publisher's Synopsis
Sensation and tactual perception by skin is an innate mechanism for human survival, and represents our evolved and adaptive somatosensorial ability to apprehend information via haptics - the active touch for object recognition and perception by higher centers of the brain (Fernandes and Albuquerque, 2012; Reed and Ziat, 2018). The somatosensation that is identified by a set of molecular receptors sensitive to a variety of stimuli (thermal, tactile, and mechanical), is critical to survival, balance control, and pain modulation.
