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Touch
Title
Touch [electronic resource] / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2008.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (45 min.)) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 19, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
It is expressive, intuitive, and complex in its design and function. No sense defines us more than our tactile ability, and yet most of us go through life completely unaware of the myriad ways we depend on and benefit from it. Journeying through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory receptors, and into the brain, this program explores the amazing capabilities of what many believe is the most crucial interface between the inner self and the outside world. Along the way viewers meet a man who has developed a range of strategies to compensate for the loss of his sense of touch. And what do a race car driver and a surgeon have in common? The answer sheds further light on the uncanny ways in which the human body uses this extraordinary sense.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2008.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Science of the Senses
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
6 & up.
Contents
Language of Touch (1:01)
A Man Who Can't Feel (2:21)
Ian Waterman's Condition (1:24)
The Somatic System (1:19)
Our Most Important Touch Tool (2:13)
Moving Without Feeling (1:03)
Hidden Gift of Touch (1:23)
Proprioception (1:51)
Loss of Proprioception (1:03)
Moving Without Proprioception (1:51)
Importance of Proprioception (1:43)
Vision and Movement (2:05)
Performing Like an Athlete (2:12)
Can Touch Replace Vision? (3:16)
Blind People Understand Perspective (1:03)
Access Through Touch (2:16)
The Tactile Realm (1:44)
Communicating Through Touch (1:56)
Hands Can Read Faces (1:41)
Indirect Touch (1:46)
Robotics (1:36)
Virtual Surgery (3:10)
Targeted Reinnervation (2:20)
Closing Comments on Touch (1:50)
Additional Resources and Credits: Touch: Science of the Senses (0:36)
Videorecording number
48858 Infobase
52748s Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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