Abstract
The present study was carried out with a new approach to evaluating the comfort of fabric contact pressure. Functional magnetic resonance imaging technology was conducted to monitor brain response when a comfortable fabric contact pressure, according to the subjective evaluation, was applied to the skin surface of the lower human chest. After a strict method of calibration with a family-wise error check analysis, the study we performed revealed the right secondary somatosensory cortex appeared prominently positively activated under a comfortable fabric pressure state. This suggested the secondary somatosensory cortex brain region, particularly the right secondary somatosensory cortex, was probably the characteristic brain region for fabric comfort perception. A reasonable explanation was that proper contact pressure facilitated the serial information flow from the primary somatosensory cortex to the secondary somatosensory cortex, and comfortable touch stimulated the firing of A-beta afferent nerves.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3499-3505 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Textile Research Journal |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| Early online date | 28 Nov 2018 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
Keywords
- fMRI
- right secondary somatosensory cortex
- fabric contact pressure
- comfortable