Forms, textures, warmth. The world we touch is what we discover closest to ourselves and we convert it into concepts. Touching is learning. Brushings that take on the category of experiences in our mind.

What we know

Although from the outside it appears to be a simple physical barrier, the skin performs other functions such as sensation, metabolic functions and heat regulation.

Atlas of dermatology

This website contains a great deal of specialised information on our skin. Go here for details of the anatomy and histology of the skin. You can also consult an atlas of dermatology.

One of the first sense impressions caused by a person reaches us through the quality of their skin. Although the sense of sight has a lot to do with it, the different visual sensations such as texture, colour, shine, blemishes or wrinkles we may perceive in the skin always evoke tactile sensations like softness, roughness or smoothness.

Dermatology in the cinema

An actor’s skin often gives non-verbal, non-gestural messages which contain a good amount of information. The author of this website gives a very detailed analysis of the skins of numerous film actors and invites us to look into what each characteristic suggests.

 

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What we are

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The receptors responsible for the tactile sensations that take place in the skin are able to perceive a wealth of stimuli: heat, cold, pressure, vibrations... These are the physical phenomena we perceive through the sense of touch.

Senses and behaviour. What is touch?

If you consult this page and the following three you’ll find answers to questions like what is “phantom pain”.

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The skin is the receptor for every tactile stimulus. Through it we can gain information on the exterior, the texture of an object, its temperature, amongst other aspects more or less relevant to each person.

Histology of the skin

The structure of the skin, together with descriptive diagrams, as well as very clear, concise information, are some of the things you can find at this site.

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If we watch an infant in its first months of life, we realise that it spends almost all its free time picking up different objects, turning them round, observing them from all sides and putting its fingers into any cavity or fissure. It’s as if the child were seeing with its fingers, as if there existed a direct connection between hand and eyes. As if its senses of touch and sight acted in conjunction in order to learn to differentiate the terrain corresponding to each one.

Three-dimensional puzzles

The three-dimensional puzzles at this site will help us to return to childhood, to take a piece in our hands and “see-touch” where to put it.

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What we create

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The senses are also a gateway, and point of departure, for less definable sensations, like stress and vital well-being. Through the senses, in this case touch and smell, we can learn to relax and try to live better and longer.

Shiseido, anti-ageing advice

This site presents a series of short popular articles on the different relationships between the senses of touch and smell and our well-being.