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    • Video Abstract: Elements in History of the Emotions and the Senses:Affective Touching: Neurobiology and Technological Applications: Mark Paterson
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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 February 2025
      20 February 2025
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      9781009484404
      9781009484367
      9781009484374
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009484404
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      (229 x 152 mm)
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      Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
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      History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    At the end of the twentieth century the discovery of 'slow', affective touch nerves in humans known as C Tactile (CT) afferents, which are entirely separate from the faster pathways for touching objects, had huge social implications. The Swedish neuroscientists responsible formulated an “affective touch hypothesis” or “social touch hypothesis” to consider their purpose. Part I offers a history of the science of social touch, from related discoveries in mammals by physiologists in the 1930s, to the recent rediscoveries of the CT nerves in humans. Part II considers how these findings are being intentionally folded into technologies for interaction. First, as mediated social touch, communicating at a distance through haptics. Second, with the increasing number of social and service robots in health care and domestic settings, the role of affective touch within human-robot interaction design.

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