Quantifying the sensory and emotional perception of touch: differences between glabrous and hairy skin

Quantifying the sensory and emotional perception of touch: differences between glabrous and hairy skin

The perception of touch is complex and there has been a lack of ways to describe the full tactile experience quantitatively. Guest et al. (2011) developed a Touch Perception Task (TPT) in order to capture such experiences, and here we used the TPT to examine differences in sensory and emotional aspe...

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Main Authors: Rochelle eAckerley, Karin eSaar, Francis eMcGlone, Helena eBacklund Wasling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Psychophysics
somatosensory
tactile
affective touch
pleasant
C-tactile
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00034/full

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