Essays about: "C-tactile afferents"

Found 4 essays containing the words C-tactile afferents.

  1. 1. Rubber hand illusion and affective touch : A systematic review

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Jesper Anell; [2020]
    Keywords : Rubber hand illusion; affective touch; cognitive neuroscience; body ownership; interoception;

    Abstract : The feeling of owning a body part is often investigated by conducting and manipulating the rubber hand illusion, a three-way integration of vision, touch, and proprioception. In the last decade, more research on the role of interoception, the sense of the body's’ internal state, in the illusion has been made. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Sense of Touch : Physiology and Neural Correlates of Affective Touch and its Role in Subjective Wellbeing

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Beatrice Svensson; [2019]
    Keywords : Somatosensory system; affective touch; discriminative touch; C-tactile afferents; subjective wellbeing; positive affect; social relations;

    Abstract : The somatosensory system concerns the sense of touch. It is sectioned into various kinds of touch, such as the proprioceptive sense, providing information of sense of self and position of limbs, and the cutaneous sense, informing of the modalities of touching or being touched. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Sense of Touch : Physiology and Neural Correlates of Affective Touch and its Role in Subjective Wellbeing

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Beatrice Svensson; [2018]
    Keywords : Somatosensory system; affective touch; discriminative touch; C-tactile afferents; subjective wellbeing; positive affect; social relations;

    Abstract : The somatosensory system concerns the sense of touch. It is sectioned into various kinds of touch, such as the proprioceptive sense, providing information of sense of self and position of limbs, and the cutaneous sense, informing of the modalities of touching or being touched. READ MORE

  4. 4. Somatosensory system; touch : Physiology and Neuronal Correlates of Discriminative and Affective Touch

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Clara Dahlquist; [2014]
    Keywords : somatosensory system; discriminative touch; affective touch; C-tactile afferents; somatosensory cortices; orbitofrontal cortex;

    Abstract : This essay is about the somatosensory system, which is divided into different kinds of touch. Described briefly are the proprioceptive touch, which is transported to the brain via A-alfa fibers and transmits information about e. g. limb position and movement. READ MORE