Psychophysical relationships between softness and pleasantness perceived by touch

• Main Author: Ng, Megan Hui Si
• Other Authors: Ryo Kitada
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148693
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The sense of touch is basic but vital. It allows us to perceive discriminative and affective sensations in relation to an object’s physical properties. While discriminative touch allows for the haptic recognition of objects, affective touch contributes hedonic properties such as pleasantness or unpl...