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The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa [PDF]

open access: yesPsychiatry 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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The effects of negative emotions on sensory perception: Fear but not anger decreases tactile sensitivity

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Lexicon and Scenarios of Touch Perception: Towards Developing a Research Thesaurus

open access: yesВестник 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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Understanding the Effect of Speed on Human Emotion Perception in Mediated Social Touch Using Voice Coil Actuators

open access: yesFrontiers 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]

open access: yesPLoS 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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Neural processing of self-touch and other-touch in anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum condition

open access: yesNeuroImage: Clinical, 2022
Introduction: The tactile sense plays a crucial role in the development and maintenance of a functional bodily self. The ability to differentiate between self- and nonself-generated touch contributes to the perception of the bodies’ boundaries and more ...
Morgan Frost-Karlsson   +6 more
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Combining vision and touch in texture perception [PDF]

open access: yesPerception & Psychophysics, 1985
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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Altered touch perception and associated risk factors in individuals with diabetes mellitus [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of altered touch perception in the feet of individuals with diabetes mellitus and the associated risk factors. Method: Cross-sectional study with 224 individuals with diabetes mellitus conducted in an endocrinology ...
Juliana Andreia Fernandes Noronha   +5 more
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Velocity-Oriented Dynamic Control–Display Gain for Kinesthetic Interaction with a Grounded Force-Feedback Device

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2023
Kinesthetic interaction is an important interaction method for virtual reality. Current kinesthetic interaction using a grounded force-feedback device, however, is still considered difficult and time-consuming because of the interaction difficulty in a ...
Zhenxing Li, Jari Kangas, Roope Raisamo
doaj   +1 more source

The perception of touch and the ventral somatosensory pathway [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 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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