 Tactile sensations are mediated by cutaneous mechanoreceptors (see Entry on Touch). Touch carries information both about the object one is in contact with and about the body part in contact (Katz 1925; Fulkerson 2014; Richardson 2013; Vignemont and Massin, 2015). For some, it is the most important sense because it gives us an experiential access to the reality of the world we are in contact with: 