Social touch is a powerful force in human development, shaping social reward, attachment,
cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation from infancy and throughout life. In this …

Historically, research on emotion perception has focused on facial expressions, and findings
from this modality have come to dominate our thinking about other modalities. Here we …

The rewarding sensation of touch in affiliative interactions is hypothesized to be
underpinned by a specialized system of nerve fibers called C-Tactile afferents (CTs), which …

Though rarely included in studies of parent–infant interactions, affectionate touch plays a
unique and vital role in infant development. Previous studies in human and rodent models …

Low intensity, non-noxious, stimulation of cutaneous somatosensory nerves has been
shown to trigger oxytocin release and is associated with increased social motivation, plus …

In the past 2 decades, interoception has received increasing attention in the fields of
psychology and cognitive science, as well as neuroscience and physiology. A plethora of …

Introduction The physiotherapy approach to musculoskeletal pain is currently pointing more
towards a hands-off management of patients by education and exercise therapy. However …

Since their initial discovery in cats, low-threshold C-fiber mechanoreceptors have become a
central interest of scientists studying the affective aspects of touch. Their pursuit in humans …

Interoception—the perception of internal bodily signals—has emerged as an area of interest
due to its implications in emotion and the prevalence of dysfunctional interoceptive …

The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of bodily self-consciousness.
Using multisensory integration paradigms, recent studies have shown that both …