Touching moments: Desire modulates the neural anticipation of active romantic caress

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Ebisch, Sjoerd J ^a   Ferri, Francesca ^b,c   Gallese, Vittorio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active touch; Affective touch; Affilliative behavior; Desire; FMRI; Posterior insula; Reward anticipation; Social touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESIRE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOVE; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIONATE LOVE SCALE; PLEASANTNESS; POSTERIOR INSULA; REWARD; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; ROMANTIC CARESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TOUCH;

EID: 84896951635     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00060     Document Type: Article

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