Characterizing affiliative touch in humans and its role in advancing haptic design.
affective touch
affiliative touch
emotion
haptic technology
self-regulation
valence
Journal
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
ISSN: 1749-6632
Titre abrégé: Ann N Y Acad Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7506858
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Historique:
medline:
23
10
2023
pubmed:
19
8
2023
entrez:
19
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
An emerging view in cognitive neuroscience holds that the extraction of emotional relevance from sensory experience extends beyond the centralized appraisal of sensation in associative brain regions, including frontal and medial-temporal cortices. This view holds that sensory information can be emotionally valenced from the point of contact with the world. This view is supported by recent research characterizing the human affiliative touch system, which carries signals of soft, stroking touch to the central nervous system and is mediated by dedicated C-tactile afferent receptors. This basic scientific research on the human affiliative touch system is informed by, and informs, technology design for communicating and regulating emotion through touch. Here, we review recent research on the basic biology and cognitive neuroscience of affiliative touch, its regulatory effects across the lifespan, and the factors that modulate it. We further review recent work on the design of haptic technologies, devices that stimulate the affiliative touch system, such as wearable technologies that apply the sensation of soft stroking or other skin-to-skin contact, to promote physiological regulation. We then point to future directions in interdisciplinary research aimed at both furthering scientific understanding and application of haptic technology for health and wellbeing.
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Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
29-41Subventions
Organisme : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
ID : PDF- 532611-2019
Organisme : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
ID : RGPIN-2018-04828
Organisme : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
ID : RGPIN-2020-05354
Organisme : Michael Smith Health Research BC
ID : 16897
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© 2023 The Authors. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of New York Academy of Sciences.
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