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Interlude XXXIV - The Social Skin: Touch, Safety, and the Nervous System
Touch is the oldest sense, the first language learned, and the last to fade. Long before speech, before gesture, before conscious memory, the skin was already listening.
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the neuroscience of touch as a regulator of emotion, trust, and social reality. Drawing on research in affective neuroscience, developmental psychology, and human ethology, this episode examines how the body’s largest organ functions as a social interface, translating contact into meaning.
Listeners are guided through the discovery of specialized nerve…
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