Spatio-temporal profile of brain activity during gentle touch investigated with magnetoencephalography

• Main Authors: Eriksson Hagberg, Elin, Ackerley, Rochelle, Lundqvist, Daniel, Schneiderman, Justin, Jousmäki, Veikko, Wessberg, Johan
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; MEG; C-Tactile
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88035; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49900
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Positive affective touch plays a central role in social and inter-personal interactions. Low-threshold mechanoreceptive afferents, including slowly-conducting C-tactile (CT) afferents found in hairy skin, transmit such signals from gentle touch to the brain. Tactile signals are processed, in part, b...