Conference Agenda

Social touch in adolescence: Heightened sensitivity and stress regulation.

Irene Valori

Chair for Social Affective Touch, Technical University of Dresden, Dreden, Saxony, Germany

Threat, agency, tactile feedback: behavioral, cardiac and cortical determinants of self-related processing in self-touch

Anne Felsenheimer^1,2, Arno Villringer², Sarah Garfinkel¹, Patrick Haggard²

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; ²Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK

What makes a touch feel ticklish?

Ziliang Xiong¹, Tilman Stephani¹, Konstantina Kilteni^1,2

¹Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; ²Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Investigating the emotional responses elicited by the sounds of affective touch

Malika Auvray, Francisco Barbosa Escobar

Sorbonne Université, CNRS, France

“Mom, is that you?” Mother-infant behavioral synchrony predicts 6-month-olds’ somatosensory discrimination of maternal versus unfamiliar woman’s touch

Isis Angelica Segura¹, Camila Fragoso Ribeiro¹, Lívia Campos¹, Isabela Macen Petrovitch de Oliveira¹, Rogério de Oliveira¹, Sérgio Luiz Novi², Rickson C. Mesquita³, Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório¹

¹Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil; ²University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA; ³School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK