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Affective touch perception and longing for touch during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Interpersonal touch and affective touch play a crucial role in social interactions and have a positive influence on mental health. The social distancing regulations implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have reduced the ability to engage in ...
Larissa L. Meijer +6 more
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Longing for touch and CT-optimal touch perception after interpersonal trauma. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIt has previously been shown that interpersonal trauma (IPT) can negatively impact the experience and perception of social touch. There are, however, also indications that people with IPT might simultaneously experience a stronger longing for touch (LFT).
Birgit Hasenack, Anouk Keizer
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Exposure shapes the perception of affective touch
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2019 Touch is a common occurrence in our lives, where affective and inter-personal aspects of touch are important for our well-being. We investigated whether touch exposure affects hedonic and discriminative aspects of tactile perception.
Uta Sailer, Rochelle Ackerley
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Pleasant touch perception in borderline personality disorder and its relationship with disturbed body representation [PDF]
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2022 Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by altered perception of affective stimuli, including abnormal evaluation of nociceptive input. However, whether or not perceptual alterations are present for its positive counterpart, i.e.
Annette Löffler +4 more
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Endowing a NAO Robot With Practical Social-Touch Perception [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Social touch is essential to everyday interactions, but current socially assistive robots have limited touch-perception capabilities. Rather than build entirely new robotic systems, we propose to augment existing rigid-bodied robots with an external ...
Rachael Bevill Burns +6 more
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A comprehensive EEG dataset for investigating visual touch perception [PDF]
Scientific DataVisual touch perception is fundamental to body awareness and social bonding, helping us perceive ourselves and connect with others. However, understanding its neural basis has been limited by a lack of comprehensive public datasets.
Sophie Smit +5 more
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The Nurses’ Perception of Expressive Touch: An Integrative Review [PDF]
Journal of Caring Sciences, 2023 Introduction: Nurses use physical touch to interact with patients and address their needs. Human touch benefits social development, stress/anxiety reduction, and rapport building.
Jade Elyse Burgess +3 more
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When consumers touch: a conceptual model of consumer haptic perception [PDF]
Spanish Journal of Marketing-ESIC, 2022 Purpose – Touch plays an important role in the evaluations of products. However, prior quantitative touch research does not present a holistic perspective of haptics.
Achini Tharaka Ranaweera
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Human perception of shape from touch [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 Abstract In this paper, I focus on the role of active touch in three aspects of shape perception and discrimination studies. First an overview is given of curvature discrimination experiments. The most prominent result is that first-order stimulus information (that is, the difference in attitude or slope over the stimulus) is the ...
Physics of Man +5 more
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The relation between human hair follicle density and touch perception [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Unmyelinated low threshold C-tactile fibers moderate pleasant aspects of touch. These fibers respond optimally to stroking stimulation of the skin with slow velocities (1–10 cm/s).
Emma H. Jönsson +6 more
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