<Li> Electrical impulses move along neural pathways to specific parts of the brain wherein the impulses are decoded into useful information (perception). </Li> <P> For example, when touched by a soft feather, mechanoreceptors--which are sensory receptors in the skin--register that the skin has been touched . That sensory information is then turned into neural information through a process called transduction . Next, the neural information travels down neural pathways to the appropriate part of the brain, wherein the sensations are perceived as the touch of a feather . </P> <P> Children are often taught five basic senses: seeing (i.e., vision), hearing (i.e., audition), tasting (i.e., gustation), smelling (i.e., olfaction), and touching . However, there are actually many more senses including vestibular sense, kinesthetic sense, sense of thirst, sense of hunger, and cutaneous sense . </P> <P> Psychologists who specialize in psychophysics measure sensory sensitivity by identifying: </P>

4 distinct skin senses that make up touch