: How do humans feel temperature differences and how precisely can we feel it?

Question

: How do humans feel temperature differences and how precisely can we feel it?

In: Biology

Answer 1

what noone seems to have mentioned is how our brains interpret the signals from our “temperature sensors”.

Our brains is much more about relative change than absolute “temperature”.

You can do an easy experiment at home. Get three bowls. One with hot water (not burn hot), one with luke warm water and one with cold water. Put your right hand in the warm water and the eft hand in the cold water for a while (20+ seconds is enough iirc).

Then put both hands in the luke warm water. The temperature of the water is now of course the same for both hands but your right hand will feel “cold” water and the eft hand will feel “warm” water.