An fMRI study on cortical responses during active self-touch and passive touch from others

An fMRI study on cortical responses during active self-touch and passive touch from others

Active, self-touch and the passive touch from an external source engage comparable afferent mechanoreceptors on the touched skin site. However, touch directed to glabrous skin compared to hairy skin will activate different types of afferent mechanoreceptors. Despite perceptual similarities between t...

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Main Authors: Rochelle eAckerley, Eusra eHassan, Andrew eCurran, Johan eWessberg, Håkan eOlausson, Francis eMcGlone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Skin
somatosensory
sensorimotor
motor
glabrous
hairy
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00051/full

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