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While there are lots of other animals that feel wetness; buckle up, friends, humans can't. When you spill a glass of water on yourself, you are feeling something, but it's not the water. We don't like it either, but it seems to be true.
Show Notes:
2014 NIH reprint of Journal of Neurophysiology Why wet feels wet? A neurophysiological model of human cutaneous wetness sensitivity
IFL Science version
Science Daily: Understanding the Illusion of Wetness
YouTube of The rubber fake hand experiment!
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