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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |