A new study links brain timing to body ownership, showing how alpha waves affect whether sight and touch feel self-related.

Robots are starting to flinch. New generations of electronic skin can register heat, pressure and even damaging force, then ...

Warmth and cold shape body awareness, emotions, and mental health in ways science is only starting to understand.

Kate Poole receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council and the US Air Force Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development Mirella ...

Touch deprivation is a real problem. Here’s how to navigate it and protect your mental health. Touch starvation, also known as touch deprivation or “skin hunger,” refers to experiencing a chronic lack ...

A single touch can convey warmth, rejection, intimacy, or distance—all within seconds. Have you ever felt an unexpected sense of rejection without quite knowing why? Or, on the other hand, a deep ...