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Tag related to questions on the sense of touch and haptics, including, but not limited to peripheral processes dealing with touch, central processing of touch stimuli in the brain; kinesthetic systems (awareness of movement); and proprioceptive system (muscle spindles including the multisensory processes involving the balance organ). Often, but arguably, even heat and pain reception in the skin are grouped under the sense of touch.

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What stimulates a nociceptor?

And when a sharp object pierces the skin, why is pain, rather than simply touch, perceived? … Also, what causes nociceptors to sometimes be stimulated when there is no painful stimulus present, such as during a migraine when the skin feels painful to touch and in chronic pain? …
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