Abstract
Touch is an essential and powerful part of social interactions in humans. It is used to convey feelings and thoughts and aids in forming and maintaining social bonds throughout life. When we view others giving or receiving social touch, we automatically convert the sight of touch between others into an internal representation of touch and thus recognize, to some extent, what the other person is feeling. Nevertheless, the mechanisms through which this process occurs are just beginning to be elucidated. Here, we review the neural correlates that underpin observed touch perception, we discuss deficits in this ability in several psychopathologies and we review developmental studies that tackle this ability in the very early stages of infancy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 152-158 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences |
| Volume | 43 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
Funding
L.PA is supported by the Israel Science Foundation fellowship (grant No. 147/20 ) and by the Zuckerman-Council for higher education ( CHE ) STEM Leadership Program fellowship.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Zuckerman-Council for higher education | |
| Division of Chemistry | |
| Israel Science Foundation | 147/20 |
