Skin, muscles, tendons, and joints have mechanoreceptors that work with muscle movements to explore environment. Touching by active exploration with fingers {haptic touch} {haptic perception} uses one information channel. Passive touch uses parallel channels. Touch can tell whether surface is sliding under stationary skin, or skin is sliding over stationary surface. See Figure 1.
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