Is our perception deeply and pervasively shaped by how we feel about the things we perceive?
June 6, 2012 11:17 AM Subscribe
Caltech Neuroscientists Show How Brain Responds to Sensual Caress A nuzzle of the neck, a stroke of the wrist, a brush of the knee—these caresses often signal a loving touch, but can also feel highly aversive, depending on who is delivering the touch, and to whom. Interested in how the brain makes connections between touch and emotion, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the association begins in the brain's primary somatosensory cortex, a region that, until now, was thought only to respond to basic touch, not to its emotional quality.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a single link press release that you have copied the first paragraph from. Maybe if this is something you want to see on MeFi you could make more of a post about it? -- jessamyn
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