The science of interpersonal touch: an overview.

By Alberto Gallace, Charles Spence. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010

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Discriminative and affective touch: sensing and feeling. (2014, background): “Touch is the first sense to develop ontogenetically (Montagu, 1978; Gallace and Spence, 2010) and, thus, may play a fundamental role in scaffolding the social brain as it is the initial modality able to distinguish ‘‘self’’ from ‘‘other’’ in the developing brain.”
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2014, neutral): “forms of non-verbal and verbal communication [116].”
Sensory cues and shoppers’ touching behaviour: the case of IKEA (2012, background): “2 The tactile sense The tactile sense (or the sense of touch) is the first of our human senses to develop and the largest sensory organ (Gallace and Spence, 2010).”
Multisensory design: Reaching out to touch the consumer (2011, background): “…to have strong effects on people’s behavior regardless of their awareness of the tactile sensations presented (e.g., Crusco & Wetzel, 1984; see also Gallace & Spence, 2010), using tactile signature feels in order to help elderly people choose a given product might result in important advantages…”