Painful mechanical stimuli activate multiple peripheral sensory afferent subtypes
simultaneously, including nociceptors and low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMRs). Using …

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measurement, and communication... a great resource for researchers and clinicians." Score …

The perception of touch is complex and there has been a lack of ways to describe the full
tactile experience quantitatively. Guest et al. developed a Touch Perception Task (TPT) in …

Touch plays a central role in interpersonal behavior, especially in its capacity to convey—
and induce—changes in affect. Previous research has established that slow, caress-like …

Touch massage (TM) is a form of pleasant touch stimulation used as treatment in clinical
settings and found to improve well-being and decrease anxiety, stress, and pain. Emotional …

Affective tactile stimulation plays a key role in the maturation of neural circuits, but the
development of brain mechanisms processing touch is poorly understood. We therefore …

Recent evidence from neurophysiology and human functional neuroimaging has given rise
to the hypothesis that social, affective touch belongs to a distinct category of tactile …

ABSTRACT John Cacioppo and colleagues' Somatovisceral Afference Model of Emotion
(SAME) highlighted the importance of interoception in emotional experience. Here we …

In spite of considerable progress in the understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying
the experience of empathy, the majority of previous investigations have focused on how we …

Un-myelinated C tactile afferents (CT afferents) are a key finding in affective touch. These
fibers, which activate in response to a caress-like touch to hairy skin (CT afferents are not …