# The Sensory Coding of Warmth Perception

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**Created:** [December 27, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.painresearcher.net/t/the-sensory-coding-of-warmth-perception/525 "2018-12-27T14:04:59Z")\
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> **[The sensory coding of warm perception](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/502369v1)**
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> Humans easily discriminate tiny skin temperature changes that are perceived as warming or cooling. Dedicated thermoreceptors forming distinct thermosensory channels or “labelled lines” are thought to underlie thermal perception. We show that mice...