Following the successful Festival of Touch in 2023 (jointly held by IASAT and Research in Touch), IASAT2025 conference was held in Jena, Germany between 9th – 11th June 2025. Find out more on the IASAT2025 Microsite A message from the IASAT 2025 organising committee in Jena: Since IASAT was founded, Read more…
The festival organisers and IASAT committee were saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Vincent Hayward in Paris on 10th May 2023. Vincent was a pioneer in the field of Haptics and tactile perception. objavljen ovdje A number of moving tributes have been published in honour of his scientific and personal Read more…
A joint meeting of Research In Touch and IASAT:How do you feel… how do you want to feel? Registration – Abstracts – Agenda – Venue – Accommodation The Festival of Touch aims to bring together researchers working in the sense of touch from across the world. It will be a joint meeting of two networks: Research in Read more…
It’s been a while since we’ve had news to share – but we want to get back in touch. The International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT) is organising a Social Event during the meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, ESCAN 22 ,in Vienna. Join Read more…
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Social touch is not purely a human behaviour. In fact, the C-tactile (CT) afferent was first characterised (as a C-low threshold mechanoreceptor) in cats. In this paper Testard et al. explore the social relationships within groups of macaques on a remote island both before and after a devastating hurricane. This is a unique perspective showing that Read more…
The role of oxytocin (OT) in social behaviours has long been considered. Some studies suggest that endogenous OT is a mediator of social relationships, while other studies have shown that the exogenous manipulation of OT may not impact social behaviour at all. Here, Handlin, Novembre et al. explored the top-down effect of partner/stranger touch on endogenous Read more…
In the upcoming socialBRIDGES e-conference on June 29, 2021, we are pleased to offer an interdisciplinary one-day event on touch in the era of COVID, consisting of talks and a virtual poster room. There will also be a virtual space for participants to socially interact during coffee breaks, as we would do Read more…
Kirsch and colleagues report the first human lesion study on the perception of C-tactile touch in right hemisphere stroke patients (N = 59). The results show that lesions in the right posterior and anterior insula reduce tactile, contralateral and ipsilateral pleasantness sensitivity, respectively. These findings provide important insight into the Read more…
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