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Touch Satiety: Differential Effects of Stroking Velocity on Liking and Wanting Touch Over Repetitions

A slow, gentle caress of the skin is a salient hedonic stimulus. Low threshold, unmyelinated C-tactile afferents fire preferentially to this type of touch, where slow (<1 cm/s) and fast (>10 cm/s) stroking velocities produce lower firing frequencies and are rated as less pleasant. The current...

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Autores principales: Triscoli, Chantal, Ackerley, Rochelle, Sailer, Uta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25405620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113425