Touch

When reading this article, it made me think of all the things that I've touched today. I've actually learned a lot from this article. When Diane Ackerman was talking about the experiments with rats and the massaging that babies in prenatal care it was interesting to learn how easily our bodies can fail without being touched. Out of all the readings that we've read so far this is my favorite. This article gave me an insite of how touch is the once sense that doesn't have one organ you can focus on. My favorite part of this article was went the neurologist and other scientists experiment with touch. For example when primates were in three situations. One touch was not possible but all other contact was, two for four house out of twenty-four the glass divider was removed so for interaction and three total isolation. Its sad to say that the monkeys who were totally isolated ended up having brain damage. I know that it must sound cruel for us human to test other animals but as a result of not being touch ends in brain damage is pretty depressing. As humans we rely on touch to express emotion, but its really our hands that are the messengers of emotion.