Talk:Thermoception

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I was looking for a description of the temperature that thresholds pain, and I can't find it on WP. I think this article would probably be the best place to put it. Does anyone know such things? - Omegatron 20:31, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

I was looking for a description of where the human body was most sensitive to pain and touch and so on. I know it varies but there doesn't seem to be any real sources of information.

THERMOCEPTION: TEMPERATURE VS. HEAT TRANSFER
Part of the definition of thermoception is, “…those that detect heat (i.e. temperatures above body temperature) and those that detect cold..”  Technically, the skin does not sense temperature. It senses the rate of heat flow towards and away from the body. Case in point, a piece of steel that is at 50 degrees Fahrenheit will “feel colder” than a wool mitten at the same temperature. This is due to the steel conducting heat away from the body at a high rate. WyomingSon (talk) 12:24, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there a reliable source for that? A higher rate of heat flow also results in a larger change in temperature over the same period of time, so the two are easily confused. -- Beland (talk) 00:15, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I concur with Beland's question. There is a large difference between heat transfer and temperature.  I think will will need specific technical sources to clarify what sort of thermoception different types of animals are able to do.  (There is some lay evidence that the human finger pain response is a function of heat transfer, and NOT temperature.  There used to be a photograph of a scientist holding a high-temperature thermal protection tile for the space shuttle that had been just removed from a lab oven and was white hot.  I can't find that photo in a Wikipedia article right now, but it does provide a vivid illustration of the point we are discussing here.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 14:24, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

How Humans Can Perceive Infrared As Visible Light
Where does this fit in How Humans Can Perceive Infrared As Visible Light--Kitchen Knife (talk) 21:09, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

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