ArticleConsciousness and cognition2021
The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal.
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- The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- The emotional responses to the sounds of organic affective tactile gestures.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Updating Prospective Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Cardiac Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa: An Experimental and Computational Study.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Simulating the psychological and neural effects of affective touch with soft robotics: an experimental study.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology.Psychological research · 2022Review
- Combination of visuo-tactile and visuo-vestibular correlations in illusory body ownership and self-motion sensations.PloS one · 2022Article
- Interpersonal Affective Touch in a Virtual World: Feeling the Social Presence of Others to Overcome Loneliness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Affective touch topography and body image.PloS one · 2021Article
- Feel-Good Requirements: Neurophysiological and Psychological Design Criteria of Affective Touch for (Assistive) Robots.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2021Review
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Abstract
Previous studies have highlighted that affective touch delivered at slow velocities (1-10 cm/s) enhances body-part embodiment during multisensory illusions, yet its role towards whole-body embodiment is less established. Across two experiments, we investigated the role of affective touch towards subjective embodiment of a whole mannequin body within the full body illusion, amongst healthy females. Participants perceived affective touch to be more pleasant than non-affective touch, but this did not enhance subjective embodiment within the illusion and no interaction between synchrony (Experiment 1), or congruency (Experiment 2), and the velocity of touch was observed. Finally, the perceived pleasantness of touch was not modulated by subthreshold eating disorder psychopathology, as measured by means of a self-report questionnaire. Therefore, the present findings suggest that enhancement of embodiment due to affective touch may be body-part specific, and not generalise to greater ownership towards a whole body.
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