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Touch

Distinct prior expectations shape tactile and proprioceptive localization

Hüseyin O. Elmas, W. Pieter Medendorp, Luke E. Miller

published 29 Sep 2026

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Physical contact in physical education for women: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of discomfort related to initiator gender, relationship with the initiator, and body region

Megumi Gonno, Noriyuki Kida

published 11 Sep 2026

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Additive effect of tDCS and neuromotor recruitment on functional recovery in chronic paraplegia: A randomized controlled trial

Ahmad Rifai Sarraj, Jihan Allaw, Eliane Rached, Joy Khayat, Hassan Karaki, Ahmad Diab, Antonio Pinti

published 23 Jun 2026

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Beyond the baby schema: Objects being touched are perceived to be cute

Akane Ohashi, Hiroshi Nittono

published 19 Feb 2026

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Longing for touch and CT-optimal touch perception after interpersonal trauma

Birgit Hasenack, Anouk Keizer

published 27 Oct 2025

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Emergent patterns of interaction with dynamic objects

Buse Aktas¸, Paris Myers, Emily Salem, Roberta L. Klatzky, Robert D. Howe

published 18 Sep 2025

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Modulation of the post-auricular reflex in response to social and CT-optimal touch

Birgit Hasenack, Anouk Keizer, Olga Wódecka, Leonard B. Schaafsma, H. Chris Dijkerman, David Terburg

published 13 Aug 2025

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The balance stabilising benefit of social touch: Influence of an individual’s age and the partner’s relative body characteristics

Katrin Hanna Schulleri, Dongheui Lee, Leif Johannsen

published 05 Jun 2025

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Can impersonal touch replace interpersonal touch? An investigation using the rubber hand illusion

Jaehyoung Bae, Christian Wallraven

published 07 May 2025

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Affective touch reduces histamine evoked itch experience

Syed Hasan Ali, Nicholas Fallon, Timo Giesbrecht, Andrej Stancak, Carl A Roberts

published 22 Apr 2025

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Modified musculofascial lengthening technique for submuscular ulnar nerve transposition in cubital tunnel syndrome

Sang-Pil So, Won Sun Lee, KiHyeok Ku, Young Ho Shin, Jae Kwang Kim

published 29 Jan 2025

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Measuring habituation to stimuli: The Italian version of the Sensory Habituation Questionnaire

Vincenza Tarantino, Noemi Passerello, Ayelet Ben-Sasson, Tamar Y. Podoly, Alessia Santostefano, Massimiliano Oliveri, Laura Mandolesi, Patrizia Turriziani

published 31 Dec 2024

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Tactile sensitivity alters textile touch perception

Sunidhi Mehta, Ida Holásková, Matthew Walker

published 18 Sep 2024

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