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SUBMITTER: Ravaja N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5228183 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ravaja N N Harjunen V V Ahmed I I Jacucci G G Spapé M M MM
Scientific reports 20170112
Although the previous studies have shown that an emotional context may alter touch processing, it is not clear how visual contextual information modulates the sensory signals, and at what levels does this modulation take place. Therefore, we investigated how a toucher's emotional expressions (anger, happiness, fear, and sadness) modulate touchee's somatosensory-evoked potentials (SEPs) in different temporal ranges. Participants were presented with tactile stimulation appearing to originate from ...[more]