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Affective touch

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  • Funders: Centre d'Imagerie BioMédicale and 7 more
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Activation of the insula, anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, and secondary somatosensory cortex

upin rhesus monkeys1

1 study

  1. Affective touch increases activation of the insula, anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, and secondary somatosensory cortex in rhesus monkeys.

    “The insula, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), amygdala, and secondary somatosensory cortex were all significantly more active during slow touch relative to fast touch”

    Animalsanesthetized monkeys; compared with fast discriminative touchslow, gentle touchbrain

    Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch in monkeys transcend consciousness and change with age

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America22 Apr 2024

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