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How We Touch

How We're Wired

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This week we look at the neuroscience of touch. How do we feel with our fingertips? What parts of the brain integrate the complexities of touch? And how are scientists creating prosthetics that give back feeling to amputees? I'm Anna Machon and I'm an evolutionary anthropologist.

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