With women being more sensitive emotional than men, women have taken a lead in bearing greater sense of touch than their counterparts, a recent study carried out at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada claimed.

‘Our discovery reveals that one important factor in the sense of touch is finger size,’ said one of the researchers, whose work is published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

The university test for sensitivity and tactile activity was conducted on 100 females and the test results were compared with the men.

The research of the McMaster University has proved the size of the hands to be the major factor in determining the touch sensitivity. It study claimed that since women have smaller hands notice smaller detailed grooves than those women with larger hands accounting to fact that in the smaller hands the density of the touch receptors is high, as compared to those who have larger hands.

In addition the study revealed that different fingers posses’ different sense of touch and the index finger is the most sensitive compared to others.

“Much like pixels in a photograph, each skin receptor sends an aspect of the tactile image to the brain – more receptors per inch supply a clearer image,” says a statement released with the study.

The study is expected to continue, dealing with the comparative study between the senses of touch possessed by adult and that by children.