Psychological Seminar Series: C-Fibres Don't Just Hurt...
1:00pm - 2:00pm /
Wednesday 5th October 2016
/ Venue: Lesley Hearnshaw Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor Eleanor Rathbone Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- 01517941106
- Dr Craig Thorley
- Admission: Free
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Research into the sense of touch - the first of our senses to come ‘on-line’ in the developing foetus - has focussed mainly on the fingertips - described, in an analogy with vision, as the ‘fovea’ of this sensory modality. Information from these receptors is conveyed to discriminative sensory areas of the brain by fast-conducting nerve fibres, enabling this information to be processed in ‘real-time’ – an important factor when handling objects or tools. However, touch has another dimension beyond the purely discriminative that we are all familiar with, such as that feeling one gets when cuddling a baby, or hugging a loved one – an emotional one. The importance of emotional touch in our daily lives will be reviewed, and some new insights into links with pain and autism.