The role of C-tactile nerve fibers in human social development

Altered relationship between subjective perception and central representation of touch hedonics in adolescents with autism-spectrum disorder

(2021) Irene Perini et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Individual Variability of Pleasantness Ratings to Stroking Touch Over Different Velocities

(2020) Ilona Croy et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

3D Hand-Motion Tracking and Bottom-Up Classification Sheds Light on the Physical Properties of Gentle Stroking

(2020) Clive Lo et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Distinction of self-produced touch and social touch at cortical and spinal cord levels

(2019) Rebecca Boehme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deactivation of default mode network during touch

(2019) Timmy Strauss et al.   Scientific Reports

Infants discriminate the source of social touch at stroking speeds eliciting maximal firing rates in CT-fibers

(2019) Marie Aguirre et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Touch aversion in patients with interpersonal traumatization

(2019) Timmy Strauss et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

An ultrafast system for signaling mechanical pain in human skin

(2019) Saad S. Nagi et al.   Science Advances

Dissecting maternal care: Patterns of maternal parenting in a prospective cohort study

(2019) Eva Unternaehrer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Does touch matter? The impact of stroking versus non-stroking maternal touch on cardio-respiratory processes in mothers and infants

(2019) Martine Van Puyvelde et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Infants Autonomic Cardio- Respiratory Responses to Nurturing Stroking Touch Delivered by the Mother or the Father

(2019) Martine Van Puyvelde et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The human “feel” of touch contributes to its perceived pleasantness.

(2019) Maria Wijaya et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Dynamic touch reduces physiological arousal in preterm infants: A role for c-tactile afferents?

(2019) Andrea Manzotti et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

EEG captures affective touch: CT-optimal touch and neural oscillations

(2018) Mariana von Mohr et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Affective and non-affective touch evoke differential brain responses in 2-month-old infants

(2018) Emma H. Jönsson et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction

(2018) Pavel Goldstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stroking modulates noxious-evoked brain activity in human infants

(2018) Deniz Gursul et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Infant brain response to affective and discriminative touch: A longitudinal study using fNIRS

(2018) Helga O. Miguel et al.   Social Neuroscience

Slow brushing reduces heat pain in humans

(2017) J. Liljencrantz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN

Touch between romantic partners: Being stroked is more pleasant than stroking and decelerates heart rate

(2017) Chantal Triscoli et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

C-tactile afferent stimulating touch carries a positive affective value

(2017) Ralph Pawling et al.   PLoS One

Gentle touch perception: From early childhood to adolescence

(2017) Ilona Croy et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Neural correlates of gentle skin stroking in early infancy

(2017) Jetro J. Tuulari et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Tune to touch: Affective touch enhances learning of face identity in 4-month-old infants

(2017) Letizia Della Longa et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Interpersonal stroking touch is targeted to C tactile afferent activation

(2016) I. Croy et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Frequency of Maternal Touch Predicts Resting Activity and Connectivity of the Developing Social Brain

(2016) Jens Brauer et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus Responses Predict Perceived Pleasantness of Skin Stroking

(2016) Monika Davidovic et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Temporal dynamics of brain activation during 40 minutes of pleasant touch

(2016) Uta Sailer et al.   NEUROIMAGE

On Cuteness: Unlocking the Parental Brain and Beyond

(2016) Morten L. Kringelbach et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Brain Mechanisms for Processing Affective (and Nonaffective) Touch Are Atypical in Autism

(2015) Martha D. Kaiser et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neural correlates of endogenous attention, exogenous attention and inhibition of return in touch

(2014) Alexander Jones et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Human C-Tactile Afferents Are Tuned to the Temperature of a Skin-Stroking Caress

(2014) R. Ackerley et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

(2014) Francis McGlone et al.   NEURON

Development of brain mechanisms for processing affective touch

(2014) Malin Björnsdotter et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Touch perceptions across skin sites: differences between sensitivity, direction discrimination and pleasantness

(2014) Rochelle Ackerley et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Proposed evolutionary changes in the role of myelin

(2013) Klaus M. Stiefel et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Human Touch Effectively and Safely Reduces Pain in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit

(2012) Carolyn J. Herrington et al.   Pain Management Nursing

Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

(2009) Line S Löken et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Quantitative assessment of pleasant touch

(2009) Greg K. Essick et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The development of maternal touch across the first year of life

(2007) Sari Goldstein Ferber et al.   EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT