What Makes Touch Comfortable? An Examination of Touch Giving and Receiving in Two Cultures

Gentle Stroking Elicits Somatosensory ERP that Differentiates Between Hairy and Glabrous Skin

(2022) Annett Schirmer et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Social touch — a tool rather than a signal

(2022) Annett Schirmer et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Meaning makes touch affective

(2022) Uta Sailer et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Affectionate touch in satisfying and dissatisfying romantic relationships

(2022) Brett K Jakubiak   JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Digital electronics in fibres enable fabric-based machine-learning inference

(2021) Gabriel Loke et al.   Nature Communications

Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing and craving interpersonal touch

(2021) Mariana von Mohr et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Providing support is easier done than said: Support providers' perceptions of touch and verbal support provision requests

(2021) Brittany K. Jakubiak   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Differentiating self-touch from social touch

(2021) Rebecca Boehme et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans

(2021) Rochelle Ackerley   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Resilience to stress and social touch

(2021) Alexies Dagnino-Subiabre   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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

(2021) Ilona Croy et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Do C-tactile afferents go to sleep? A potential role for somatosensory stimulation in sleep regulation

(2021) Martine Van Puyvelde et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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

Cross-cultural similarity in relationship-specific social touching

(2019) Juulia T. Suvilehto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

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

(2017) Chantal Triscoli et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Interpersonal stroking touch is targeted to C tactile afferent activation

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

ALE meta-analysis reveals dissociable networks for affective and discriminative aspects of touch

(2016) India Morrison   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans

(2015) Juulia T. Suvilehto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Bodily maps of emotions

(2013) L. Nummenmaa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Touching and feeling: differences in pleasant touch processing between glabrous and hairy skin in humans

(2012) F. McGlone et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal

(2012) R. E. Jack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Role of Affective Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Human Intent and Expectations in Touching the Haptic Creature

(2011) Steve Yohanan et al.   International Journal of Social Robotics

Feeling good: on the role of C fiber mediated touch in interoception

(2010) M. Björnsdotter et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

(2009) Line S Löken et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The science of interpersonal touch: An overview

(2008) Alberto Gallace et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS