Monday, March 15, 2021

Fingerprints enhance our sense of touch


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/sfn-feo030921.php

 

News Release 15-Mar-2021
Society for Neuroscience

 

Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects: they also improve our sense of touch. Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge, according to new research published in JNeurosci.


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