Long before any of us could string a sentence together, we understood touch and spoke the language of touch and close personal contact. It was your first languageLong before any of us could string a sentence together, we understood touch and spoke the language of touch and close personal contact. In a 2024 paper published in the journal Anthropology of Consciousness, researchers examining touch in a digitalised world wrote that touch needs no translation and no interpretation. The forgotten sense of digital lifeTouch has been called the forgotten sense of the digital world. Touch moulds your personalityDevelopmental psychologists at Italy’s University of Padua, in a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, wrote that touch is fundamental from birth.