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The importance of Social Touch| title | The importance of Social Touch |
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| start_date | 2023/02/02 |
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| schedule | 13h30-15h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Bât. S |
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| summary | At the boundary between the body, the environment and others, touch is a key path for social interactions. Indeed, touch enables the transmission of pro-social and emotional signals that cannot be communicated through other sensory modalities. Thus, touch is important in myriad social situations, but often neglected. Moreover, research have shown a specialized pathway for affective touch, the CT system. In this talk, I will briefly put together the results of recent studies shedding some lights on: (i) the crucial role of affective touch in communicating emotions; (ii) the role of touch in buffering feelings of social isolation and rejection, especially in this time of forced social distancing; and (iii) a new way of measuring skin-to-skin interactions. |
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| responsibles | Heurley |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/01/25 15:05 UTC |
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