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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Interpersonal touch is vital for mammalian communication, socialization, and well-being.
  • Despite its importance, the neurocognitive effects of interpersonal touch remain understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of interpersonal touch on cognitive control.
  • To examine the subjective, neural, and behavioral correlates of touch during an inhibitory control task.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 45 romantic couples (N=90) for a within-subject repeated-measures design.
  • One partner performed an inhibitory control task while electroencephalography (EEG) monitored neural activity.
  • Interpersonal touch was manipulated between experimental blocks.

Main Results:

  • Participants reported increased happiness when receiving touch.
  • Touch led to enhanced neural processing of mistakes.
  • Cognitive modeling indicated touch indirectly improved inhibitory control and evidence accumulation via neural monitoring.

Conclusions:

  • Interpersonal touch positively impacts mood and enhances neurocognitive functions.
  • Touch supports flexible, goal-directed behavior by influencing neural monitoring processes.
  • Findings extend beyond emotional regulation, highlighting touch's role in cognitive enhancement.