Conferences Press & Media Social Touch
Professor Francis McGlone: How do you feel? – Roche NeuroSense
In November 2017, the pharmaceutical company Roche hosted NeuroSense, an event that aimed to “explore the way the brain uses Read more…
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A Touching Story – BNA Bulletin – Autumn 2017
The Autumn 2017 edition of the BNA Bulletin (free to all British Neuroscience Association Members!) which has just landed on Read more…
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Spinal Column: we all benefit from a tender touch – Melanie Reid, The Times
Melanie Reid MBE is an award-winning Times journalist whose weekly column for The Times, ‘Spinal Column’, is about disability and Read more…
Somatosensory & Affective Neuroscience Group
Future-proofing Healthcare: Neurosense – 2nd November – FREE Event
Future-proofing Healthcare: NeuroSense, a non-promotional evening, hosted by Roche, to explore the future of Neuroscience through the five senses. NeuroSense will address Read more…
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CTs & Microneurography in Moscow
As part of SomAffect’s developing collaboration with Anton Varlamov & Galina Protnova at the Russian Institute of Higher Nervous Activity Read more…
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NewScientist: Premature babies’ brains respond differently to gentle touching.
SomAffect’s research with collaborators into gentle touch in premature infants has been featured in an article by the NewScientist by Read more…
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Professor Francis McGlone on Touch – BBC One Breakfast
LJMU Neuroscience Professor Francis McGlone discusses the importance & role of “touch” in schools on BBC One Breakfast, a national Read more…
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BPS 1 Day Conference: Division of Educational and Child Psychology – 10/02/2017
SomAffect’s Prof. Francis McGlone will be a keynote speaker at one day conference on touch hosted by the BPS:DECP in Read more…
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New Book: Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents: 2016
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. (more…)
Conferences Social Touch
Workshop: Interacting with Robots Through Touch – UC Irvine, USA
On 13th September 2016, SomAffect’s Francis McGlone will be speaking at a workshop held at University of California, Irvine.
Register at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma/haptics_workshop.html