"Touch Perception" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process by which the nature and meaning of tactile stimuli are recognized and interpreted by the brain, such as realizing the characteristics or name of an object being touched.
| Descriptor ID |
D055698
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.593.894
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| Concept/Terms |
Touch Perception- Touch Perception
- Perception, Touch
- Perceptions, Touch
- Touch Perceptions
- Tactile Perception
- Perception, Tactile
- Perceptions, Tactile
- Tactile Perceptions
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch Perception" by people in Profiles.
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In your skin? Somatosensory cortex is purposely recruited to situate but not simulate vicarious touch. Neuroimage. 2024 Apr 01; 289:120561.
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Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body. Child Dev. 2023 05; 94(3):e154-e165.
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Sex-based differences and aging in tactile function loss in persons with type 2 diabetes. PLoS One. 2020; 15(11):e0242199.
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Inter-Limb Transfer of Grasp Force Perception With Closed-Loop Hand Prosthesis. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2019 05; 27(5):927-936.
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Sensorimotor uncertainty modulates corticospinal excitability during skilled object manipulation. J Neurophysiol. 2019 04 01; 121(4):1162-1170.
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Haptic-motor transformations for the control of finger position. PLoS One. 2013; 8(6):e66140.
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Effects of carpal tunnel syndrome on adaptation of multi-digit forces to object texture. Clin Neurophysiol. 2012 Nov; 123(11):2281-90.
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Effects of fusion between tactile and proprioceptive inputs on tactile perception. PLoS One. 2011 Mar 25; 6(3):e18073.
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How somatic cortical maps differ in autistic and typical brains. Neuroreport. 2009 Jan 28; 20(2):175-9.