Haptic communication many terms such as positive, playful, control, ritualistic, task-related or unintentional. It can be both sexual (kissing is one example that some perceived as sexual), and platonic (such as hugging or a Handshake). Touch is the earliest sense to develop in the fetus. The development of an infant's haptic senses and how it relates to the development of the other senses such as vision has been the target of much research. Human babies have been observed to have enormous difficulty surviving if they do not possess a sense of touch, even if they retain sight and hearing. Infants who can
The Senses (Rembrandt) The Senses (Rembrandt) The Senses is a series of five oil paintings, completed by Rembrandt, depicting the five senses. The whereabouts of one, representing the sense of taste, is unknown. Another, representing smell, was only re-identified in 2015. Rembrandt was only around eighteen years old when the paintings were made; they are his earliest surviving works, and are of identical size. In about the 1720s the four known paintings were extended, but only one, "Smell", retains the additions and those are now concealed by its frame, so that it appears to retain its original format. Three of the extant paintings,