You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that involves, amongst others, the experience of being touched or stroked on the skin, but also sensing temperature and feeling pain. In addition, somatosensation is responsible for registering the inside of the body.