Gentle touch activates the anterior prefrontal cortex: An NIRS study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 76-82

  Kida, Tetsuo ^a   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotion; Pleasant touch; Reward

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND PALM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PLEASURE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TOUCH; WOOD;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884700988     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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