While early haptic devices focused on single-sensory cues like vibration-based ... focus on cutaneous feedback—stimulating the skin's receptors to provide realistic touch sensations—rather ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

PIEZO2 protein forms an ion channel in human sensory receptors ... of sensory neurons that innervate the skin—humans have four times more pain receptors in the skin than touch receptors.

For example, sensory cells in the skin respond to the pressure of touch, whereas similar cells in the ear react to the movement of sound waves. In addition, specialized cells in the human vascular ...

These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input from hormones, proteins and other biochemical ...