Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Olausson, Håkan (Editor), Wessberg, Johan (Editor), Morrison, India (Editor), McGlone, Francis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurobiology.; Cognitive psychology.; Biomedicine.; Cognitive Psychology.

CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic properties of touch that are mediated by la...