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  • Psychology
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Multisensory integration is crucial for body awareness and selfhood.
  • Affective touch, mediated by C-tactile (CT) fibers, enhances body ownership.
  • The impact of affective touch on self-face identification remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if affective touch modulates self-face recognition within the enfacement illusion paradigm.
  • To examine the role of CT-optimal touch in multisensory integration and self-face identification.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the enfacement illusion with synchronous/asynchronous and congruent/incongruent tactile stimulation.
  • Experiment 1: Temporal synchrony/asynchrony with affective (CT-optimal) vs. neutral (CT-suboptimal) touch (N=30).
  • Experiment 2: Spatial congruence/incongruence of touch (N=38).

Main Results:

  • CT-optimal affective touch enhanced subjective self-face recognition during synchronous, spatially congruent multisensory integration.
  • No significant enhancement in behavioral self-face recognition was observed.
  • Affective touch may reduce deafference during asynchronous multisensory integration.

Conclusions:

  • Affective touch, particularly CT-optimal, influences subjective self-face recognition.
  • This suggests a role for affective touch in shaping the social aspects of self-perception.
  • Findings highlight the interplay between somatosensory processing and identity construction.