ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Touch-induced brain network signatures for social processing and stress reduction
As the digital nature of society increases, the frequency of human contact decreases. This seemingly inevitable relationship has potentially devastating consequences for the mental and emotional health of billions of people. Clear understanding and appropriate action are the only path to mitigating this looming crisis. Currently, the field of interpersonal touch research is a patchwork of theoretical frameworks and, worse still, lacks robust, ecologically valid experimental data. Objective One of TOUCHNET is to build a large database centered around interpersonal touch behavior: its frequency, triggers, and effects. A multi-center, ecological momentary assessment approach, will provide over…
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