Transcript TOUCH
TOUCH LIZZY,ASHLEY&MARIAH ::The skin:: • Skin is the main organ for sense of touch • The skin’s ability to perceive touch gives our brains information about our environment. How touch travels… 1) Your peripheral nerves. 2) Your spinal cord. 3) Your brain. HOW WE FEEL PRESSURE & DIFFERENT TEMPATURES Pain • Differs from other senses • Theory of feeling pain – Gate-control Theory • Has been updated • Phantom Pain • Pain threshold – Differs between all people Braille • Louis Braille • Form of writing for the blind • Raised bumps – Six dot positions • Two columns, three dots each. The letter M Works Cited • • • • • "How You Feel Pain." Mayo Clinic Medical Information and Tools for Healthy Living - MayoClinic.com. 5 Nov. 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pain/>. "Sense of Touch." Home Science Tools. 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://www.hometrainingtools.com/skin-touch/a/1388/>. "Your Sense of Touch." Think Quest Junior. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. http://library.thinkquest.org/3750/touch/touch.html Wade, Carole, and Carol Tavris. "Senses of the Skin." Psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006. 206-09. Print. "Braille." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille>. • "Removing Those Skin Wrinkles" Comprehensive Medical Information and Health News for Patients and Physicians. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. <http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/removing-those-skinwrinkles.html>. • "Pain." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain>. • "Receptors in the Skin." Welcome to Sumanas, Inc. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. <http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/skinre ceptors.html>.