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ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2019

Social touch and human development.

Carissa J Cascio, David Moore, Francis McGlone

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Review in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 153 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

153 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Pseudo-Haptic Feedback: Multi-Modal Approaches to Stiffness Perception and User Experience.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  6. C-low threshold mechanoreceptors: a novel target for health-tech in an increasingly touch-deprived world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  20. The Role and Ethics of Touch and Non-touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carissa J CascioVanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Nashville, TN, USA; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Human Development, Nashville, TN, USA. Electronic address: carissa.cascio@vanderbilt.edu.
David MooreLiverpool John Moores University, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool, UK.
Francis McGloneLiverpool John Moores University, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool, UK; University of Liverpool, Institute of Psychology Health & Society, Liverpool, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social touch is a powerful force in human development, shaping social reward, attachment, cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation from infancy and throughout life. In this review, we consider the question of how social touch is defined from both bottom-up and top-down perspectives. In the former category, there is a clear role for the C-touch (CT) system, which constitutes a unique submodality that mediates affective touch and contrasts with discriminative touch. Top-down factors such as culture, personal relationships, setting, gender, and other contextual influences are also important in defining and interpreting social touch. The critical role of social touch throughout the lifespan is considered, with special attention to infancy and young childhood, a time during which social touch and its neural, behavioral, and physiological contingencies contribute to reinforcement-based learning and impact a variety of developmental trajectories. Finally, the role of social touch in an example of disordered development -autism spectrum disorder-is reviewed.

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FemaleHuman DevelopmentHumansMaleTouchAffectiveAutismCT afferentsDevelopmentDiscriminativeSocialTactileTouch

Identifiers

PMID29731417
PMCPMC6968965

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