Touch is one of the senses, and the senses all interact with each other. For example: While walking through an open air market, you SEE baskets overflowing with wonderful flowers of all imaginable colors, sizes, textures in bouquets tied with satin or velvet ribbons. The baskets sit two long table lengths, in two rows. The SMELL is overwhelmingly delightful as you walk between the rows. Also, although you may not be aware of it, your EMOTIONS are triggered--by sight and smell in this situation.
You cannot help but to reach out to TOUCH the sturdy green stems, to feel how cool they are, and to glide your fingers gently along the petals, as you remember ....
Our emotions and basic human needs also demand that we touch and be touched.
Studies show that the "art of laying hands" on a person can be as healing as --or at least an adjunct--to some of the strongest medicines or best treatments medicine can offer. Hospital patients often recall the nurse who gently touched the patient's hand...or the Doctor Who patted the patient's shoulder...as professionals who seemed to care the most or had the most healing effect. A human's spiritual side also craves touch and gestures of caring, as good for the soul as listening to an uplifting hymn or seeing a religious picture. We "reach out" and touch others to show affection, caring, etc. Our love lives need touch just as much as romantic love needs the partner to show interest, engage in conversations, and communicate a loving bond. The stimulus for touch is reflex
They react in same way most animals do. They respond to any stimulus. The stimulus can be touch, smell, sight etc... Blue Whales are likely to not to respond to same things as humans such as touch but still react to stimulus. An example being swimming deeper when a boat is near by.
The word thigmotropism refers to the turning or bending of a plant in response to a touch stimulus.
when we touch a hot object we immediately (even without thinking) withdraw our hand. touching the hot object is the stimulus and withdrawing our hand is the response
The back is least able to distinguish a one-point stimulus from a two-point stimulus due to its lower density of touch receptors compared to areas like the fingertips or lips.
The somatosensory area is responsible for processing sensory information related to touch, pressure, temperature, and pain from the skin and muscles. It helps us perceive and interpret sensory stimuli to create our sense of touch and spatial awareness.
In Biology, Thigmotropism is the turning or bending of a plant or other organism in response to a touch stimulus.
The tendency of a plant to grow toward a stimulus is called positive tropism. This can be in response to light (phototropism), gravity (gravitropism), or touch (thigmotropism).
Color perception cannot be used for signaling the intensity of a stimulus, as it is primarily used for distinguishing different wavelengths of light. Other sensory modalities such as touch, taste, and smell are better suited for detecting and signaling the intensity of a stimulus.
I don't have the ability to feel temperature changes because I am a computer program.
An example of reacting to a stimulus is pulling your hand away when you touch something hot. The sensory input of feeling the heat triggers a reflex that causes you to quickly move your hand to avoid injury.
The general term for this behavior is tropism. It can take a variety of forms, including phototropism (when the stimulus is light) and chemotropism (when the stimulus is a particular chemical).
It is responding to the touch/movement stimulus.