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      Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch

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          Specific, peripheral C-tactile afferents contribute to the perception of tactile pleasure, but the brain areas involved in their processing remain debated. We report the first human lesion study on the perception of C-tactile touch in right hemisphere stroke patients (N = 59), revealing that right posterior and anterior insula lesions reduce tactile, contralateral and ipsilateral pleasantness sensitivity, respectively. These findings corroborate previous imaging studies regarding the role of the posterior insula in the perception of affective touch. However, our findings about the crucial role of the anterior insula for ipsilateral affective touch perception open new avenues of enquiry regarding the cortical organization of this tactile system.

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                Contributors
                Role: Reviewing Editor
                Role: Senior Editor
                Journal
                eLife
                Elife
                eLife
                eLife
                eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
                2050-084X
                24 January 2020
                2020
                : 9
                : e47895
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London LondonUnited Kingdom
                [2 ]Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Sorbonne Université ParisFrance
                [3 ]Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand JohannesburgSouth Africa
                [4 ]Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet StockholmSweden
                [5 ]NPSY.Lab-VR, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona VeronaItaly
                [6 ]Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology LondonUnited Kingdom
                [7 ]Department of Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire HatfieldUnited Kingdom
                Harvard Medical School United States
                University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Germany
                Harvard Medical School United States
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8418-776X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0904-7967
                Article
                47895
                10.7554/eLife.47895
                7043887
                31975686
                df86a7ca-252e-4166-960c-feb526794301
                © 2020, Kirsch et al

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 23 April 2019
                : 23 January 2020
                Funding
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781, European Research Council;
                Award ID: ERC-2012-STG GA313755
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003407, Ministry of Education, University and Research;
                Award ID: PRIN 20159CZFJK
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007052, University of Verona;
                Award ID: Bando di Ateneo per la Ricerca di Base 2015 project MOTOS
                Award Recipient :
                The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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                Lesion analyses in right hemisphere stroke patients reveal the crucial role of the right anterior and posterior insula in the perception of affective touch.

                Life sciences
                affective touch,ct system,insula,interoception,lesion mapping,human
                Life sciences
                affective touch, ct system, insula, interoception, lesion mapping, human

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