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Mechanoreceptive A primary afferents discriminate naturalistic social touch inputs at a functionally relevant time scale
Shan Xu, Steven C. Hauser, Saad S. Nagi +7
Interpersonal touch is an important channel of social emotional interaction. How these physical skin-to-skin touch expressions are processed in the peripheral nervous system is not…
Thin Films on the Skin, but not Frictional Agents, Attenuate the Percept of Pleasantness to Brushed Stimuli
Merat Rezaei, Saad S. Nagi, Chang Xu +3
Brushed stimuli are perceived as pleasant when stroked lightly on the skin surface of a touch receiver at certain velocities. While the relationship between brush velocity and plea…
Human-to-Human Strokes Recordings for Tactile Apparent Motion
Basil Duvernoy, Sarah McIntyre
The main objective of this study is to investigate whether one can use recordings of human-to-human touch, such as a caress, to improve tactile apparent motion interfaces to make t…
3D Visual Tracking to Quantify Physical Contact Interactions in Human-to-Human Touch
Shan Xu, Chang Xu, Sarah McIntyre +2
Across a plethora of social situations, we touch others in natural and intuitive ways to share thoughts and emotions, such as tapping to get one's attention or caressing to soothe…
Subtle Contact Nuances in the Delivery of Human-to-Human Touch Distinguish Emotional Sentiment
Shan Xu, Chang Xu, Sarah McIntyre +2
We routinely communicate distinct social and emotional sentiments through nuanced touch. For example, we might gently hold another's arm to offer a sense of calm, yet intensively h…
Naturalistic stimuli in touch research
Anne Margarette S. Maallo, Basil Duvernoy, Håkan Olausson +1
Neural mechanisms of touch are typically studied in laboratory settings using robotic or other types of well-controlled devices. Such stimuli are very different from highly complex…
Affective touch communication in close adult relationships
Sarah McIntyre, Athanasia Moungou, Rebecca Boehme +6
Inter-personal touch is a powerful aspect of social interaction that we expect to be particularly important for emotional communication. We studied the capacity of closely acquaint…