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The investigators found that 70% of the skin receptors in the plantar foot were fast adapting. They instead rely on 180 skin receptors to pinpoint prey, says Leo van Hemmen, a biophysicist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. The second article describes the abilities of various skin receptor afferents to code surface roughness, vibration, and spatial patterns (such as braille). |
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