Touch is our earliest sense - and presumably also the last of the senses fading. PHOTO: personenwee

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Monday morning. In the sleepy subway car with a young woman touching her face and checked it in the reflection of the window. On my knees freely distributed iPad case, which reflects personenweegschaal the child's face. It does not examine the surrounding environment, observed other people, but Roadsteads fingers across the screen, which touches the moving virtual objects.
Small children are naturally kinestetičtí creatures; learn through movement, touching and "ohmatávání personenweegschaal things." personenweegschaal Compared personenweegschaal to previous generations, however, spend less and less time tactile learning that takes place outside in nature or at home. It is not at all feel important in human life? The mother of all senses
Feeling a sensation in the human privileged position, since it is the earliest sensory system that develops in the human embryo. Long before than we are able to see the big picture, smell the aroma, savor the taste or hear the sound, we perceive ourselves thru touch. "The language of touch" remains throughout our lives effectively - but not fully exploited - way communication.
According to the testimony of historian Robert Mandroua was touch until the 18th century, considered a sort of supervisor of the other senses, personenweegschaal whose unreliability verified and anchored in reality. Medieval proximity touching friendship manifested for example by sharing a bed with the same sex, or food pojídaným hands from a common bowl (an Italian monk preached that God has equipped humans' natural forks "in the form of fingers).
Over time, she began to touch increasing distance - and within this distance began to play prim other "noble senses." In the work of naturalist Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) can not be overlooked "racial scale" on which the privileged position he held European, "human eye", while the lowest-lived "human touch" African. People - by anthropologist Constance Classen - generally through touch dosed pleasure or pain.
Touch is our earliest sense - and presumably also the last of the senses fading. PHOTO: personenweegschaal Michal Josephy crucial role (mother) touch takes place mainly in the development of the child, within which is a prerequisite for healthy growth, sense of security, emotional and physical well-being. "If you still need to touch long dashed, leads to abnormal behavior," said already classic "anthropology of touch," Ashley Montagu. Speech of touch
"We pressed her hands as she handed me mine, and I was surprised by the touch of gentleness, directness and grace, which is rare in women, because not all are able to shake hands. Emanated from her strength, she knew it from her hand (...) not the force received from the opposite sex, but filled with colored femininity, "says Alexis Jenni's novel of the French art of war.
Although we can communicate personenweegschaal touches a surprising amount of information, while we live in "a society personenweegschaal that has a touch phobia". At least it feels psychologist Matthew Hertenstein, "We do not like to touch upon foreigners, but also friends, unless it is absolutely necessary. Our experiments show that we are able to communicate through touch basic emotions, with an accuracy of 80 percent, but also their fine resolution modality, which often fail to express a tone of voice or facial expressions. "
Many human feelings also remains too complex for us to lead them fully express themselves through speech. The actual "language of the senses" can also significantly culturally different. Euro-American area as in the case of touch indebted to the many taboos and restrictions arising from their sexualization and infantilization. Although it is possible in cases such as sexual harassment understand, personenweegschaal especially in the United States is often difficult to touch someone so that it no "untouched".
Our "lived personenweegschaal world" is increasingly mediated through touch screens of smartphones and tablets. PHOTO: Michal Josephy, however, leads to interesting paradoxes: while the boy can kiss in public, personenweegschaal ashamed personenweegschaal of his father, personenweegschaal a pat on the ass man in a sports team is widely accepted. The anthropologist David Howes in this regard considers that the cultural emphasis on individuality, autonomy, independence and privacy personenweegschaal restrict interpersonal touch on the "necessary minimum", often at the expense of their own children. In ordinary life practice, so we can meet primarily with two "touches" by which we express either peace dominance (handshake) and / or the degree of intimacy (kissing, touching). Time massages
In the book Anthropologist on Mars neurologist Oliver Sachs tells the story of an autistic woman Temple, who in adulthood produces machine personenweegschaal vynahrazující unmet childhood desire for a safe touch and embrace. She tells him masher, objímadlo machine or fondling, who was able to develop a "sensible, comfortable pressure on the body from the knees to the shoulders."
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