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Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Olausson, Håkan. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wessberg, Johan. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Morrison, India. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McGlone, Francis. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Neurosciences.
Neurobiology.
Cognitive psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6418-5

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6418-5

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