Social touch modulates pain-evoked increases in facial temperature
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DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-01212-2
Abstract: Painful stimuli can disrupt the homeostasis of human body, which is associated with the changes in facial temperature. There is evidence that social touch as a special form of tactile sensation may modulate the transmission… read more here.
Keywords: social touch; temperature; facial temperature; pain evoked ... See more keywords
Resilience to stress and social touch
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.08.011
Abstract: Modern lifestyle and adversities such as the COVID-19 pandemic pose challenges for our physical and mental health. Hence, it is of the utmost importance to identify mechanisms by which we can improve resilience to stress… read more here.
Keywords: social touch; resilience; stress; resilience stress ... See more keywords
Social touch: A new vista for developmental cognitive neuroscience?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.006
Abstract: The past years have seen a renewed interest in measuring neural, physiological or cognitive, immediate and longer-term effects of human interaction through touch. The term “social touch” was rapidly adopted, implying the existence of (stimulus)… read more here.
Keywords: research; social touch; skin; touch ... See more keywords
Depression predicts interpersonal problems partially through the attitude towards social touch.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.12.054
Abstract: INTRODUCTION Depression is associated with difficulties in interpersonal relationships, of which communication is an integral part. Communication can not only be effected by verbal means, but also non-verbally by touch. Against this background, the aim… read more here.
Keywords: depression; social touch; attitude towards; towards social ... See more keywords
Relationship-specific Encoding of Social Touch in Somatosensory and Insular Cortices
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.015
Abstract: Humans use touch to maintain their social relationships, and the emotional qualities of touch depend on who touches whom. However, it is not known how affective and social dimensions of touch are processed in the… read more here.
Keywords: relationship specific; social touch; somatosensory; somatosensory insular ... See more keywords
Vicarious Social Touch Biases Gazing at Faces and Facial Emotions
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DOI: 10.1037/emo0000393
Abstract: Research has suggested that interpersonal touch promotes social processing and other-concern, and that women may respond to it more sensitively than men. In this study, we asked whether this phenomenon would extend to third-party observers… read more here.
Keywords: gazing faces; social touch; vicarious social; touch ... See more keywords
Highly structured, partner-sex- and subject-sex-dependent cortical responses during social facial touch
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12511-z
Abstract: Touch is a fundamental aspect of social, parental and sexual behavior. In contrast to our detailed knowledge about cortical processing of non-social touch, we still know little about how social touch impacts cortical circuits. We… read more here.
Keywords: partner sex; social touch; sex; touch ... See more keywords
Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing and craving interpersonal touch
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210287
Abstract: Social touch has positive effects on social affiliation and stress alleviation. However, its ubiquitous presence in human life does not allow the study of social touch deprivation ‘in the wild’. Nevertheless, COVID-19-related restrictions such as… read more here.
Keywords: covid related; deprivation covid; social touch; touch deprivation ... See more keywords
Social Touch Gesture Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network
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DOI: 10.1155/2018/6973103
Abstract: Recently, social touch gesture recognition has been considered an important topic for touch modality, which can lead to highly efficient and realistic human-robot interaction. In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network is selected to… read more here.
Keywords: recognition; gesture recognition; touch gesture; social touch ... See more keywords
Dissociable sources of erogeneity in social touch: Imagining and perceiving C-Tactile optimal touch in erogenous zones
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203039
Abstract: Previous research points to two major hypotheses regarding the mechanisms by which touch can be experienced as erotogenic. The first concerns the body part to which touch is applied (erogenous zones) and the second the… read more here.
Keywords: social touch; sources erogeneity; touch erogenous; erogenous zones ... See more keywords
Hold me or stroke me? Individual differences in static and dynamic affective touch
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281253
Abstract: Low-threshold mechanosensory C-fibres, C-tactile afferents (CTs), respond optimally to sensations associated with a human caress. Additionally, CT-stimulation activates brain regions associated with processing affective states. This evidence has led to the social touch hypothesis, that… read more here.
Keywords: touch; individual differences; affective touch; social touch ... See more keywords