Source: IEEE Multimedia Vol.13 Issue 3 2006
Author: Robies-De-La-Torre, G.
Page: 24-30
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What would be worse, losing your sight or losing your sense of touch? Most people will immediately assert that vision is more important and valuable than touch. It’s possible to have at least a remote, approximate idea of the short-term effects of significant loss of vision or hearing by closing our eyes or by wearing ear plugs.
What about a significant loss of the sense of touch? What would that be like?
The major loss of somesthetic capabilities results in the following issues:
• Loss of the capability to sense limb movement and position.
• Major impairment in skilled performance, even with full vision and hearing. This is worsened as visual information degrades.
• Abnormal movements and the inability to walk following the loss of somesthesis. Patients must exert immense effort to relearn how to walk.
• Major loss of precision and speed of movement, particularly in the hands.
• Major difficulty performing tasks that combine significant cognitive loads and fine motor skills such as writing minutes during meetings.
• Major difficulty learning new motor tasks, relearning lost ones, or using previous experience to guide these processes.
Loss of the unconscious ability to communicate through body language. Relearning a
limited repertoire of gestures is possible.
Author: Robies-De-La-Torre, G.
Page: 24-30
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What would be worse, losing your sight or losing your sense of touch? Most people will immediately assert that vision is more important and valuable than touch. It’s possible to have at least a remote, approximate idea of the short-term effects of significant loss of vision or hearing by closing our eyes or by wearing ear plugs.
What about a significant loss of the sense of touch? What would that be like?
The major loss of somesthetic capabilities results in the following issues:
• Loss of the capability to sense limb movement and position.
• Major impairment in skilled performance, even with full vision and hearing. This is worsened as visual information degrades.
• Abnormal movements and the inability to walk following the loss of somesthesis. Patients must exert immense effort to relearn how to walk.
• Major loss of precision and speed of movement, particularly in the hands.
• Major difficulty performing tasks that combine significant cognitive loads and fine motor skills such as writing minutes during meetings.
• Major difficulty learning new motor tasks, relearning lost ones, or using previous experience to guide these processes.
Loss of the unconscious ability to communicate through body language. Relearning a
limited repertoire of gestures is possible.
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