The off-line effect of affective touch on multisensory integration and tactile perceptual accuracy during the somatic signal detection task

Affective touch refers to the emotional and motivational facets of tactile sensation and has been linked to the activation of a specialised system of mechanosensory afferents (the CT system), that respond optimally to slow caress-like touch. Affective touch has been shown to play an important role i...

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