Add to ORKGAcross different cultures, social touch is used to alleviate distress. Here we adopt a dual-brain approach with fMRI to examine whether social touch involves similar activations between the suffering 'target' and the empathizer in brain regions related to emotional sharing such as the observation-execution (mirror) network. To inspect the neural underpinnings of the effects of social touch on pain, we scanned romantic couples during a task that required one partner (the empathizer) to hold the target's hand as the latter experienced painful thermal stimulation. Empathizers and target participants were scanned sequentially, in two counterbalanced phases. Results revealed that hand-holding reduced the pain of the target participant, compared ...
Although feeling pain and touch has long been considered inherently private, recent neuroimaging and...
Recent research has shown that experiencing events that represent a significant threat to social bon...
A growing body of evidence suggests that empathy for pain is underpinned by neural structures that a...
Across different cultures, social touch is used to alleviate distress. Here we adopt a dual-brain ap...
Social touch may modulate emotions, but the neurobehavioral correlates are poorly understood. Here, ...
Recent brain imaging studies indicate that empathy for pain relies upon both the affective and/or th...
In spite of considerable progress in the understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the exper...
Recent brain imaging studies indicate that empathy for pain relies upon both the affective and/or th...
To what extent do we share feelings with others? Neuroimaging investigations of the neural mechanism...
Interpersonal touch conveys a vast amount of socio-affective information between interacting people....
Previous behavioral studies have shown that sharing painful experiences can strengthen social bonds ...
Human-to-human touch, ranging from loving caresses to attention-seeking tapping, powerfully communic...
Tactile touch is paramount throughout one’s lifespan and serves various important functions such as ...
The neural mechanisms facilitating the experience of vicarious social touch are largely unknown. The...
Unmyelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptors (C-tactile, CT) in the human skin are important for sign...
Although feeling pain and touch has long been considered inherently private, recent neuroimaging and...
Recent research has shown that experiencing events that represent a significant threat to social bon...
A growing body of evidence suggests that empathy for pain is underpinned by neural structures that a...
Across different cultures, social touch is used to alleviate distress. Here we adopt a dual-brain ap...
Social touch may modulate emotions, but the neurobehavioral correlates are poorly understood. Here, ...
Recent brain imaging studies indicate that empathy for pain relies upon both the affective and/or th...
In spite of considerable progress in the understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the exper...
Recent brain imaging studies indicate that empathy for pain relies upon both the affective and/or th...
To what extent do we share feelings with others? Neuroimaging investigations of the neural mechanism...
Interpersonal touch conveys a vast amount of socio-affective information between interacting people....
Previous behavioral studies have shown that sharing painful experiences can strengthen social bonds ...
Human-to-human touch, ranging from loving caresses to attention-seeking tapping, powerfully communic...
Tactile touch is paramount throughout one’s lifespan and serves various important functions such as ...
The neural mechanisms facilitating the experience of vicarious social touch are largely unknown. The...
Unmyelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptors (C-tactile, CT) in the human skin are important for sign...
Although feeling pain and touch has long been considered inherently private, recent neuroimaging and...
Recent research has shown that experiencing events that represent a significant threat to social bon...
A growing body of evidence suggests that empathy for pain is underpinned by neural structures that a...