Childhood Adversity and Affective Touch Perception: A Comparison of United Kingdom Care Leavers and Non-care Leavers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Francis Mcglone +2 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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Turning Touch into Perception [PDF]
Neuron, 2020 Many brain areas modulate their activity during vibrotactile tasks. The activity from these areas may code the stimulus parameters, stimulus perception, or perceptual reports. Here, we discuss findings obtained in behaving monkeys aimed to understand these processes. In brief, neurons from the somatosensory thalamus and primary somatosensory cortex (S1)
Ranulfo, Romo, Román, Rossi-Pool
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Relationship between Surface Roughness and Touch Perception on the Surfaces with Randomly Spaced, Irregular Features [PDF]
한국정밀공학회지, 2021 The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between surface roughness and touch perception of surfaces with randomly spaced, irregular features. Two sets of specimens with top surfaces consisting of triangular peaks and valleys
Jiyeon Jung, Jihong Hwang
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Touch: Fluctuating Waves of Perception [PDF]
Current Biology, 2020 Does sensory input flow into the brain as a stream, or does it come in waves? New research shows that tactile information in the cortex rises and falls in phase with the forward and back motion of whiskers during surface exploration.
Jinho, Kim, Samuel Andrew, Hires
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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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Selective perception by dynamic touch [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 1996 Perceiving the length of a rod by dynamic touch is tied to the inertia tensor Iij, a quantification of its resistance to rotational acceleration. Perception of the portion extending in front of the grasp has previously been ascribed to decomposing one component of Iij by attention.
C, Carello, M V, Santana, G, Burton
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Touch and voice have different advantages in perceiving positive and negative emotions
i-Perception, 2023 Previous research has revealed that several emotions can be perceived via touch. What advantages does touch have over other nonverbal communication channels?
Rika Oya, Akihiro Tanaka
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Difference in Haptic Softness Estimation using Pressing and Pinching [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 People systematically use different touch strategies to perceive different object features. When interacting with a deformable object, human typically judge the softness by pressing the finger pad into the surface or pinching the object with the thumb ...
Gao Binyue +5 more
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Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch
eLife, 2020 Specific, peripheral C-tactile afferents contribute to the perception of tactile pleasure, but the brain areas involved in their processing remain debated.
Louise P Kirsch +8 more
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