Generating artificial touch: from the contribution of single tactile afferents to the encoding of complex percepts, and their implications for clinical innovation

Project Information

ARTTOUCH

Grant agreement ID: 772242

DOI 10.3030/772242

Project closed

EC signature date 30 July 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 223 638,75

EU contribution € 1 223 638,75

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Stroking trajectory shapes velocity effects on pleasantness and other touch percepts.

Author(s): Annett Schirmer, Clare Cham, Oscar Lai, Thanh-loan Sarah Le, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 49, 2024, Page(s) 71-86, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001079

Individual Variability of Pleasantness Ratings to Stroking Touch Over Different Velocities

Author(s): Ilona Croy, Antonie Bierling, Uta Sailer, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Neuroscience, Issue 464, 2021, Page(s) 33-43, ISSN 0306-4522
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.03.030

What are C-tactile afferents and how do they relate to “affective touch”?

Author(s): Annett Schirmer, Ilona Croy, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 151, 2023, Page(s) 105236, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105236

Relations between tactile sensitivity of the finger, arm, and cheek skin over the lifespan showing decline only on the finger

Author(s): Léonard Samain-Aupic, Mariama Dione, Edith Ribot-Ciscar, Rochelle Ackerley, Jean-Marc Aimonetti
Published in: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1663-4365
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1387136

Slowly-adapting type II afferents contribute to conscious touch sensation in humans: Evidence from single unit intraneural microstimulation

Author(s): Roger Holmes Watkins, Mario Durao de Carvalho Amante, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Journal of Physiology, Issue 600, 2022, Page(s) 2939-2952, ISSN 1469-7793
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1113/jp282873

Effects of skin moisturization on various aspects of touch showing differences with age and skin site

Author(s): Mariama Dione, Roger Holmes Watkins, Jean-Marc Aimonetti, Roland Jourdain, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44895-w

Evidence for sparse C-tactile afferent innervation of glabrous human hand skin

Author(s): Roger Holmes Watkins, Mariama Dione, Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg, Line S. Löken
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 125, 2021, Page(s) 232-237, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00587.2020

Ressentir le toucher sans être touché

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Roger Watkins, Mariama Dione
Published in: La Lettre des Neurosciences, Issue 63, 2022, ISSN 2968-1308
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience France

Passive proprioceptive training alters the sensitivity of muscle spindles to imposed movements

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Léonard Samain-Aupic, Edith Ribot-Ciscar
Published in: eNeuro, 2022, ISSN 2373-2822
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0249-21.2021

C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Issue 43, 2022, Page(s) 95-100, ISSN 2352-1546
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.08.012

Perceptual constancy of texture: how touch of textures on the foot feels equivalent to the hand and over different movements

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 132, 2024, Page(s) 1238-1240, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00420.2024

Muscle proprioceptive feedback can be adapted to the behavioral and emotional context in humans

Author(s): Edith Ribot-Ciscar, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Current Opinion in Physiology, Issue 20, 2021, Page(s) 46-51, ISSN 2468-8673
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.cophys.2020.11.010

Conference proceedings (29)

Microneurograpy: Single unit recordings from touch afferents in humans

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Research in Touch, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Research in Touch

The influence of touch information in guiding behavior in an affective context

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2022
Publisher: European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Effect of multidigit scanning on tactile discrimination

Author(s): Mariama Dione, Heidy Daumas, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Society for Neuroscience, 2021
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience

BodySense: a collaborative research platform for development of simple, open source and replicable somatosensory research tools

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Roger Watkins
Published in: World Haptics, 2023
Publisher: IEEE

Development of a Novel, Low-Cost Accelerometer System for Recording Vibration Propagation over the Skin

Author(s): Sarah Bonnet, Roger Watkins, Heidy Daumas, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: EuroHaptics, 2024
Publisher: EuroHaptics

Precise sensory feedback from electrically stimulating single mechanoreceptive afferents in the human hand

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, Roger Watkins, Mariama Dione, Johan Wessberg
Published in: Society for Neuroscience, Issue NANO04, 2024
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience

The multiple facets of proprioception: the influence of cognitive and emotional contexts on movement encoding

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Jean-Marc Aimonetti, Edith Ribot-Ciscar
Published in: Francophone Society for Posture, Balance, and Gait, 2022
Publisher: Francophone Society for Posture, Balance, and Gait

Emotional changes affect the coding of movements by muscle afferents in humans

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Jean-Marc Aimonetti, Edith Ribot-Ciscar
Published in: European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Publisher: European Society for Cognitive Psychology

Stimulation of single neurons at 7T: studies of the quantal components of touch

Author(s): Roger Watkins, Ayan Sengupta, Rosa Sanchez-Panchuelo, Paul Glover, Johan Wessberg, Susan Francis, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: NeuroDays, 2021
Publisher: NeuroDays

Changes in touch with body site, aging, and hydration

Author(s): Jean-Marc Aimonetti, Mariama Dione, Roger Watkins, Roland Jourdain, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Festival of Touch, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

The complexity of touch encoding in humans and applying it in tactile sensors

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: World Haptics, 2023
Publisher: IEEE

Beyond pleasantness: Capturing the subjective experience of affective touch

Author(s): Maria Rosa Bufo, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: EuroHaptics, 2024
Publisher: EuroHaptics

Tactile intensity perception is shaped by temporal integration: evidence from single afferent recording and stimulation in humans

Author(s): Roger Watkins, Mario Amante, Rochelle Ackerley, Vincent Hayward, Johan Wessberg
Published in: Society for Neuroscience, 2021
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience

BodySense: a collaborative research platform for development of simple, open source and replicable somatosensory research tools

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Roger Watkins
Published in: Festival of Touch, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

Methods focus: microneurography in humans

Author(s): Roger Watkins
Published in: Festival of Touch, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

Tactile intensity perception is shaped by temporal integration

Author(s): Roger Watkins, Mario Amante, Rochelle Ackerley, Vincent Hayward, Johan Wessberg
Published in: Festival of Touch, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

Physiological and Perceptual Responses to Objects Presented in Visual and Tactile Modalities

Author(s): Maria Rosa Bufo, Mariama Dione, Roger Holmes Watkins, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: EuroHaptics, 2024
Publisher: EuroHaptics

Tactile intensity perception is shaped by temporal integration: evidence from single afferent recording and stimulation in humans

Author(s): Roger Watkins, Mario Amante, Rochelle Ackerley, Vincent Hayward, Johan Wessberg
Published in: World Haptics, 2023
Publisher: World Haptics

Investigating how humans perceive differences between drops of water.

Author(s): Léonard Samain-Aupic, Mariama Dione, Jean-Marc-Aimonetti, Roger Watkins, Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Society for Neuroscience, 2021
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience

Microstimulation as a tool to explore touch percepts elicited by electrical stimulation

Author(s): Mariama Dione, Rochelle Ackerley, Max Ortiz-Catalan, Johan Wessberg
Published in: International Conference on Phantom Limb Pain, 2021
Publisher: International Conference on Phantom Limb Pain

Tactile sensitivity of glabrous and hairy skin over the life span

Author(s): Samain-Aupic L, Ackerley R, Dione M, Ribot-Ciscar E, Aimonetti JM
Published in: Festival of Touch, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

Investigating how humans perceive differences between drops of water

Author(s): Samain-Aupic, Léonard; Dione, Mariama; Aimonetti, Jean-Marc; Watkins, Roger Holmes; Ackerley, Rochelle
Published in: NeuroFrance, May 2021, Online, France. 2021, Société des neurosciences, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience France

Insights from inside nerves: The way mechanoreceptors really respond touch and how we can use this in haptics

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: EuroHaptics, 2024
Publisher: EuroHaptics

Touch and temperature interactions at the level of the single afferent in humans

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Physiology & Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation, 2020
Publisher: Physiology & Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation

Generating artificial touch: the contribution of single tactile afferents to the encoding of complex percepts

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Léonard Samain-Aupic, Mariama Dione, Roger Watkins
Published in: NeuroFrance, 2019
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience France

C-tactile (CT) afferents and their role in affective touch

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Festival of Touch, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

The encoding of touch during active exploration of natural textures

Author(s): Dione M, Watkins R, Ackerley R, Wessberg J
Published in: Conference of Experimental Psychologists, 2022
Publisher: Conference of Experimental Psychologists

Haptic sensorimotor strategies of exploration of daily surfaces

Author(s): Sarah Bonnet, Johan Wessberg, Michaël Wand, Rochelle Ackerley, Mariama Dione
Published in: Festival of Touch, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

The perception of drops of water in humans

Author(s): Samain-Aupic L, Dione M, Waktins RH, Aimonetti JM, Deschamps J, Bodec G, Ackerley R
Published in: Festival of Touch, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: IASAT

Book chapters (3)

Microneurography: Recordings from single neurons in human peripheral nerves

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley, Roger Holmes Watkins
Published in: Somatosensory Research Methods, Issue 1, 2022, ISBN 978-3-540-92887-4
Publisher: Springer

Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processes

Author(s): Rochelle Ackerley
Published in: Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception, 2023, Page(s) 3-23
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-99193-3.00007-6

Experimental framework and methods for the assessment of skin wetness sensing in humans

Author(s): Charlotte Merrick, Rochelle Ackerley, Davide Filingeri
Published in: Somatosensory Research Methods, Issue 1, 2022, ISBN 978-3-540-92887-4
Publisher: Springer