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CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic properties of touch that are mediated by large myelinated afferents and the coding properties and functional organization of unmyelinated CT afferents have been studied much less. The proposed volume will draw together existing knowledge in this nascent field. Separate sections will address (1) how we can measure affective touch, (2) CT structure and physiology, (3) CT processing, (4) the contribution of CTs to sexual behavior, (5) clinical relevance, (6) commercial relevance, and (7) future research considerations._

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• Full title: Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
• Author: H?kan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Francis McGlone
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 430
• EAN: 9781493964161
• ISBN: 9781493964161
• ID: 10923678
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 816 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 242 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 2016

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