Squeeze me, but don't tease me: Human and mechanical touch enhance visual attention and emotion discrimination

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-230

  Schirmer, Annett ^a   Teh, Keng Soon ^a   Wang, Shuo ^a   Vijayakumar, Ranjith ^a   Ching, April ^a   Nithianantham, Darshini ^a   Escoffier, Nicolas ^a   Cheok, Adrian David ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brain; Communication; Empathy; Social facilitation; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957974396     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2010.507958     Document Type: Article

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