Rough, soft, smooth, cold, or warm. We encounter many different textures and sensations daily. Our sense of touch can recognize a lot of things, even when we don’t use our eyes. But how does touch connect to our brain? FMRI studies show that touch influences our sensations, movements, and thought processes, as well as our ability to learn new movements.  Video includes: somatosensory cortex, basal ganglia, touch and emotion, vagus nerve, tactile illusions, Aristotle’s illusion, perceptual disjunction, size weight illusion,  thermoreceptors, nociceptors, thermal grill illusion, phantom limb, vertigo, multisensory integration, visual modality, the ventriloquist effect, and Bayesian integration.