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SUBMITTER: Kitada R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363669 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kitada Ryo R Ng Megan M Tan Zheng Yee ZY Lee Xue Er XE Kochiyama Takanori T
Scientific reports 20210813 1
Touching an object can elicit affective sensations. Because these sensations are critical for social interaction, tactile preferences may be adapted to the characteristics of the human body. We have previously shown that compliance, a physical correlate of softness, increased the tactile pleasantness of a deformable surface. However, the extent to which object compliance similar to the human body elicits tactile pleasantness remains unknown. We addressed this question by using a wide range of co ...[more]