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How do humans sense wetness?
Date Posted:
August 8, 2023
Date Recorded:
August 8, 2023
Speaker(s):
Ashley Walton, MGB/MIT - All Captioned Videos
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KRIS: Hey, Ashley.
ASHLEY WALTON: Hey.
KRIS: Teach me something.
ASHLEY WALTON: Did you know that our skin doesn't have receptors to sense wetness? Our brain has to integrate cues from both thermal and mechanical sensory inputs.
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Ashley Walton, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Brigham / MIT
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