A hand-wear article heightens the neurosensory response of the skin of the wearer. The article includes a substrate having a skin-facing surface and a plurality of cutaneous sensory elements located on the substrate. The sensory elements are configured to have a sharpness frequency in the range of about 100 Hz to about 1,000 Hz and a height in the range of about 0.1 microns to about 1000 microns.