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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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The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa [PDF]
Psychiatry Research, 2016 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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, 2022 This double-screen video installation explores perception, touch, and imagination from a deafblind ‘point-of-view (experience)’. Working with Issy McGrath who has Usher Syndrome Type II and is severely deaf and completely blind, the work developed based ...
Emadi, Azadeh
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 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]
, 2008 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
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2019 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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Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 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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Reduced pleasant touch appraisal in the presence of a disgusting odor. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Odors are powerful emotional stimuli influencing mood, attention and behavior. Here we examined if odors change the perception of pleasant touch. In line with the warning function of the olfactory system, we proposed that especially unpleasant odors will
Ilona Croy +2 more
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The perception of touch and the ventral somatosensory pathway [PDF]
Brain, 2014 In humans, touching the skin is known to activate, among others, the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex on the postcentral gyrus together with the bilateral parietal operculum (i.e. the anatomical site of the secondary somatosensory cortex). But which brain regions beyond the postcentral gyrus specifically contribute to the perception of touch ...
Preusser, S. +9 more
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