How to get people to pay more attention to NOT touching their eyes, nostrils, or mouth? We invited people, in a gathering, to say “FACE” whenever they saw a speaker touching a hand to their face. And most of those people said “FACE”, cheerily—appreciating that they were talking to themselves as much as to the […]
Tag: touch
“Illusory Sense of Human Touch From a Warm and Soft Artificial Hand”
This most touching study was published in 2015: “Illusory Sense of Human Touch From a Warm and Soft Artificial Hand,” John-John Cabibihan, Deepak Joshi, Yeshwin Mysore Srinivasa, Mark Aaron Chan, and Arrchana Muruganantham, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 23, no. 3, 2015, pp. 517-527. The authors, at Qatar University, Graphic Era […]
False ‘missing toe’ sensation(s) [digital agnosia]
Do you ever get an uncanny feeling that one of your toes is missing, despite the fact that they’re all there? You’re not alone. “To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first to document the [erroneous] experience of a ‘missing toe’ in healthy volunteers.” “Nineteen young adult participants underwent tactile stimulation […]
Social Touching Maps (taboo or not taboo)
The acceptability (or otherwise) of physically touching another person can depend on many factors – including the social relationship of the toucher and the touchee, and of course, where you touch them (that’s to say, not only the bodily region, but also the socio-geographic location). A research team from Aalto University and the University of […]
Reduced Pleasant Touch Appraisal in the Presence of a Disgusting Odor
Here, a study about a disgusting odor, with a distinct touch: “Reduced Pleasant Touch Appraisal in the Presence of a Disgusting Odor,” Ilona Croy [pictured here], Silvia D’Angelo, Håkan Olausson, PLoS One, epub March 24, 2014. (Thanks to investigator Carmen Nobel for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, […]