Browsing Psychology by Subject "Touch Perception"
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Identifying with the beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self-other distinction.
(2022-07)People tend to evaluate their own traits and abilities favourably and such favourable self-perceptions extend to attractiveness. However, the exact mechanism underlying this self-enhancement bias remains unclear. One ... -
Interoception as independent cardiac, thermosensory, nociceptive, and affective touch perceptual submodalities.
(2022-07)Interoception includes signals from inner organs and thin afferents in the skin, providing information about the body's physiological state. However, the functional relationships between interoceptive submodalities are ... -
Limits of cross-modal plasticity? Short-term visual deprivation does not enhance cardiac interoception, thermosensation, or tactile spatial acuity.
(2022-02)In the present study, we investigated the effect of short-term visual deprivation on discriminative touch, cardiac interoception, and thermosensation by asking 64 healthy volunteers to perform four behavioral tasks. The ... -
Modeling affective touch pleasantness across skin types at the individual level reveals a reliable and stable basic function.
(2022-12-01)Touch is perceived most pleasant when delivered at velocities known to optimally activate the C-tactile afferent system. At the group level, pleasantness ratings of touch delivered at velocities in the range between 0.3 ... -
The perception of affective and discriminative touch in blind individuals
(Elsevier, 2023-02-24)Enhanced tactile acuity in blindness is among the most widely reported results of neuroplasticity following prolonged visual deprivation. However, tactile submodalities other than discriminative touch are profoundly ... -
The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal.
(2021-01)Previous studies have highlighted that affective touch delivered at slow velocities (1-10 cm/s) enhances body-part embodiment during multisensory illusions, yet its role towards whole-body embodiment is less established. ... -
Visuo-thermal congruency modulates the sense of body ownership.
(2022-07-22)Thermosensation has been redefined as an interoceptive modality that provides information about the homeostatic state of the body. However, the contribution of thermosensory signals to the sense of body ownership remains ...