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