The advance from a team with Professor Tobin Marks and research assistant professor Yao Yao could enable perceptual ...

There are more than 17,000 touch receptors and nerve endings in the palm alone. These features allow our hands to perform a ...

Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics ...

Researchers from Northwestern and Georgia Tech developed an organic electrochemical neuron that fires at human-like frequencies, enabling real-time tactile signal processing. Their system integrates ...

An international research team concludes that gentle touch is not only good for mental health, but also for the evolution of cooperation.

Although several types of excitable cells exist — including neurons, muscle cells, and touch receptor cells — all of them use ion channel receptors to convert chemical or mechanical messages ...

A new collaboration between Northwestern University and Georgia Tech has led to the development of an artificial electrochemical neuron that mimics human neural responses, paving the way for smarter ...

Humans feel touch through their skin, which is the largest organ of the body. It may not look like much on the surface, but it has millions of tiny sense receptors underneath. There are all sorts ...

For example, sensory cells in the skin respond to the pressure of touch, whereas similar cells ... Cells have proteins called receptors that bind to signaling molecules and initiate a ...

The award is "for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch". The motivation part of the decision says the award winners discovered a mechanism of activating nerve impulses that ...