Unmyelinated tactile afferents signal touch and project to insular cortex

By H. Olausson, Y. Lamarre, H. Backlund, C. Morin, B. Wallin, G. Starck, Sven Ekholm, I. Strigo, Keith J. Worsley, B. Vallbo and 1 more. Nature Neuroscience, 2002

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Three Systems of Insular Functional Connectivity Identified with Cluster Analysis (2010, background): “Posterior insula (PI), adjacent to auditory cortex and secondary somatosensory region SII, responds to touch, pain, and thermal stimulation (Craig et al. 2000; Brooks et al. 2002; McGlone et al. 2002; Olausson et al. 2002; Ostrowsky et al. 2002) and is a critical site for interoception (Craig 2002).”
Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. (2005, background): “The anterior insula contains tactile receptive fields (Burton et al., 1993; Olausson et al., 2002).”
Interoception in anxiety and depression (2010, background): “1990), sensual touch (Vallbo et al. 1995; Olausson et al. 2002), muscle tension (Light and Perl 2003), air hunger (Banzett et al.”
Haptic perception: A tutorial (2009, background): “For example, neuroscientists and psychophysicists have recently hypothesized that the rewarding, emotional aspects of touch may be subserved by a class of unmyelinated peripheral nerve fibers known as CT (or C tactile) afferents that are found in hairy, but not glabrous (hairless), skin (Löken, Wess”
A neurobehavioral model of affiliative bonding: implications for conceptualizing a human trait of affiliation. (2005, background): “Significantly, light, pleasant touch, that occurs to caress, like skin-to-skin contact between individuals, is transmitted by different afferents than hard or unpleasant touch (Olausson et al. 2002).”
The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: from affect to decision-making. (2008, background): “Non-glabrous skin such as that on the forearm contains C fibre tactile afferents that respond to light moving touch (Olausson et al., 2002).”
The science of interpersonal touch: an overview. (2010, positive): “A somewhat different suggestion has come from Reite (1990) who claimed that the normal association between touch and stress reduction in early childhood may result in a positive response to being touched in later life (note that this may suggest that the effects of interpersonal touch are related to”