Touch, David J. Linden
Touch, David J. Linden
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Touch
The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind

Author: David J. Linden

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/29/2015

Synopsis



David J. Linden, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and the bestselling author of The Compass of Pleasure, presents an engaging and fascinating examination of how the interface between our sense of touch and our emotional responses affects our social interactions as well as our general health and development. Accessible in its wit and clarity, Touch explores scientific advances in the understanding of touch that help explain our sense of self and our experience of the world.

From skin to nerves to brain, the organization of the body's touch circuits powerfully influences our lives—affecting everything from consumer choice to sexual intercourse, tool use to the origins of language, chronic pain to healing. Interpersonal touch is crucial to social bonding and individual development. Linden lucidly explains how sensory and emotional context work together to distinguish between perceptions of what feels good and what feels bad. Linking biology and behavioral science, Linden offers an entertaining and enlightening answer to how we feel in every sense of the word.

About David J. Linden

David J. Linden is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the New York Times bestselling author of The Compass of Pleasure and The Accidental Mind. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

Did you know our bodies have one set of nerve fibers that respond only to caresses? Or that the areas of our skin without hair are very limited -- lips, palms, parts of our sexual organs? Or that our brains can actually send signals to our spines that either exacerbate or alleviate the pain we feel? Th......more

Goodreads review by Nicky

Touch is a pretty fascinating book, delving into the importance of the sense of touch for us and what it would mean to lose that sense. It’s not just losing the sensation of your skin touching something, after all: touch receptors also play a part in interpreting pain, heat, etc. In a way, the book......more

Goodreads review by Bernie

“Touch” is a neuroscientist’s perspective on the human sense of touch, and the profound impact it has on life in our species. It’s a short book, only about 200 pages of substantive text, arranged into eight chapters. The first chapter considers the role that our sense of touch plays in our lives as......more

Goodreads review by James

On the one hand, this was an interesting subject delivered in an accessible fashion by an enthusiastic author. On the other, it took me absolutely ages to get round to finishing it, and I really had to concentrate fully on it, something that I rarely have to do. As the title suggests, this book was a......more

Goodreads review by Rebeka

That's the fundamental power of biology: No amount of philosophical reasoning, linguistic analysis or introspection could ever have resolved such matters. There are many pop nonfiction books out there that purport to be 'science', yet invariably when I open the covers, I have to recoil and make many......more

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