Affective Touch Enhances Self-Face Recognition During Multisensory Integration.

ABSTRACT: Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for constructing body awareness and key for the sense of selfhood. Recent evidence has shown that the specialised C tactile modality that gives rise to feelings of pleasant, affective touch, can enhance the experience of body ownership during multisensory integration. Nevertheless, no study has examined whether affective touch can also modulate psychological identification with our face, the hallmark of our identity. The current study used the enfacement illusion paradigm to investigate the role of affective touch in the modulation of self-face recognition during multisensory integration. In the first experiment (N = 30), healthy participants were stroked on the cheek while they were looking at another face being stroked on the cheek in sync

SUBMITTER: Panagiotopoulou E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635121 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature