A GENTLE caress may help you see better, say scientists in London. Their
finding suggests that regions of the brain dedicated to the individual senses
communicate with each other in more sophisticated ways than anyone previously
thought.
Emiliano Macaluso at University College London and colleagues there and at
the Institute of Neurology asked 12 people to look out for a flash of light
either near their right hand or near their left. At the very moment the light
flashed some of the volunteers also felt a gentle vibration in their index
finger. For some the vibration was in the same…
