The World of Senses: Feeling - Touching is Life (15/28)

The World of Senses: Feeling - Touching is Life (15/28)

It is only through the senses that we experience our environment and are able to react to it. The four-part interdisciplinary series "The World of the Senses" runs the gamut from the latest findings in brain research to art, history and education, from the first development of the senses in a baby to their deterioration in old age.

Our skin covers an area of two square metres, making it our largest sense organ. Pressure, temperature and pain sensations can stimulate its sensory receptors. In the brain these three stimuli are put together into one uniform "sensation". Our skin gives us the ability to become aware of touch, pressure, tension and differences in temperature. We can receive tactile stimuli with the entire surface of our body. Sensors register temperature changes and pain sensations and we then experience pleasure or discomfort. For that reason our sense of touch is considered the real sense of contact, with which we can experience our environment.

English Version: 4 x 26 Minutes