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Difference in Haptic Softness Estimation using Pressing and Pinching [PDF]
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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The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa [PDF]
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a disorder characterized by restricted eating, fears of gaining weight, and body image distortions. The etiology remains unknown; however impairments in social cognition and reward circuits contribute to the onset and maintenance of the disorder.
Crucianelli L. +4 more
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Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch
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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Emotions and sensory perceptions are closely intertwined. Of the five senses sight has been by far the most extensively studied sense in emotion research. Relatively less is known about how emotions influence the other four senses. Touch is essential for
Nicholas J Kelley, Brandon J Schmeichel
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Quantifying touch-feel perception : tribological aspects [PDF]
We report a new investigation into how surface topography and friction affect human touch–feel perception. In contrast with previous work based on micro-scale mapping of surface mechanical and tribological properties, this investigation focuses on the ...
Cai, Z. +4 more
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Lexicon and Scenarios of Touch Perception: Towards Developing a Research Thesaurus
The paper shows the important advance in sensory neuroscience achieved with a recent discovery of C-tactile system integrating mechanosensitive C fibers that innervate the hairy skin and representing the neurobiological substrate for the affective and ...
Anton A. Varlamov +5 more
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Visual enhancement of touch and the bodily self [PDF]
We experience our own body through both touch and vision. We further see that others’ bodies are similar to our own body, but we have no direct experience of touch on others’ bodies.
Longo, Matthew R. +2 more
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Touch as a modality in social communication has been getting more attention with recent developments in wearable technology and an increase in awareness of how limited physical contact can lead to touch starvation and feelings of depression.
Xin Zhu +2 more
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Combining vision and touch in texture perception [PDF]
In two completely randomized experiments, subjects were required to judge either which was the rougher of two abrasive papers or whether two abrasive papers were the same or different. Judgments were made visually, tactually, or with both vision and touch available.
B, Jones, S, O'Neil
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Seeing the body distorts tactile size perception [PDF]
Vision of the body modulates somatosensation, even when entirely non-informative about stimulation. For example, seeing the body increases tactile spatial acuity, but reduces acute pain.
Longo, Matthew R. +2 more
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