Touch, says David Linden, is something we take for
granted. “It’s very hard to imagine it gone,” he tells WIRED.co.uk.
“You can imagine what it’s like to be blind or deaf, or have no
sense of smell, but there’s no way to turn off touch”.
Touch might not be an obvious starting point for
Linden, who is a professor of neuroscience at the John Hopkins
University, studying learning and memory. But according to the
professor, “the story of the neuroscience underlying touch has yet
to be told”. Pointing to the advances made in touch research over
the last 20 years, Linden tells us that his own interest in the
topic was sparked over lunch by colleagues working in the School
of Medicine.
By: Emiko Jozuka,
