The science of interpersonal touch: An overview

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 246-259

  Gallace, Alberto ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human machine interfaces; Interpersonal touch; Long distance communication; Social touch; Spatial representation; Touch; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSION; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN NERVE; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; TRUST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGING; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70350568889     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.10.004     Document Type: Review

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