ABSTRACT
This description of touch hints at the frustrations felt at the time by researchers who were trying to define the parameters of touch. Over 70 years later Suzanna Millar, an experimental psychologist working at Oxford University, was continuing the challenge to capture touch's multifaceted nature:
However touch is not always concerned with an active search for information; we can also acquire information through touch incidentally. We have already noted how it is possible to obtain information about objects and sensory experiences through our tactile receptors without our bodies contacting the objects directly. Examples include the 'whole-body' vibrations that we might experience sitting in a chair when a heavy lorry passes by outside; the 'warmth' we feel when sitting close to an open fire or the impression we 'feel' through our hands when we run a stick along railings.
