#caturday have you heard about C-low threshold mechanoreceptors? #socialtouch #pain #neuroscience

🏉That’s a wrap for Social Touch 2025! 🏉

Huge thanks to everyone who turned up and made Monday nights amazing 🙌

We’ll be back in 2026 - restarting Monday 12th January!
All ages, all abilities, ALL welcome. Just turn up & play and its FREE 🦚🔥

#ShelfordRugby #SocialTouch

Our postdoc @irenevalori.bsky.social will be speaking at the PONS Conference next week, presenting her work at CeTI on touch in virtual reality, which explores how immersive tech can help us understand and simulate social touch.
ponspadova2021.wixsite.com/pons-2021/co...
#VR #SocialTouch

Introducing our new series #InsideConTaktLab

In our first episode, Master’s student Helene Krämer tests the Midas Touch Theory in VR.

Watch how we study the science of touch below.

#SocialTouch #Research #Neuroscience

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’ve received my first solo grant 🤗
A 5-year 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 grant to study how #sexualviolence shapes perception & behavior around #socialtouch 💔🫂🧠
Grateful to ISF for the chance to do this important work.

Feeling connected in VR? @irenevalori.bsky.social’s talk at #IASAT2025 explores pseudo-haptics and how visual illusions of touch in VR boost co-presence and emotional connection.

iasat2025.uni-jena.de
#VR #SocialTouch #PseudoHaptics

IASAT 2025

At #IASAT2025, our symposium explores how haptics, VR, and social robotics reshape what it means to touch and be touched, from avatars to empathetic robots.
Co-organised by @gijs.bsky.social (TU Delft) and @MerleFairhurst (@tudresden.bsky.social)

iasat2025.uni-jena.de
#Haptics #SocialTouch

IASAT 2025

Join us on June 11th at #IASAT25 for our symposium: “New frontiers and future considerations for digital social touch”

More details here: iasat2025.uni-jena.de
#IASAT2025 #SocialTouch #DigitalHaptics

How warm is too warm? Here at ConTakt Lab, we are testing a new thermal interface with the Smart Textiles Hub to explore how warmth can foster interpersonal closeness.
#AffectiveTech #SmartTextiles #SocialTouch

…elevated AEA appears to reduce preference for CT-optimal (social) touch specifically. The effect was not seen for an affective picture task suggesting a specific relationship between eCB and social processing! #Cannabinerds #SocialTouch

Linking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction - Communications Biology The study found that social touch boosts covarying patterns of the heart’s parasympathetic activity and the connection between the brain’s frontoparietal regions, showing how attached are the brain an...

Heart and self-social touch
" • heartbeats in shaping our perceptual awareness.
• social touch led to an increase in the coupling between frontoparietal networks and parasympathetic/vagal activity"
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience #socialtouch #heartbrain