Håkan Olausson

Overview

Best Publications

• Unmyelinated tactile afferents signal touch and project to insular cortex

  H. Olausson;Y. Lamarre;H. Backlund;H. Backlund;C. Morin

  1257
  Citations

• Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

  Line S Löken;Johan Wessberg;India Morrison;India Morrison;Francis McGlone

  1191
  Citations

• Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

  Francis McGlone;Francis McGlone;Johan Wessberg;Håkan Olausson

  1168
  Citations

• The skin as a social organ.

  India Morrison;Line S. Löken;Håkan Olausson

  639
  Citations

• Unmyelinated afferents constitute a second system coding tactile stimuli of the human hairy skin.

  Å. B. Vallbo;H. Olausson;J. Wessberg

  630
  Citations

• The neurophysiology of unmyelinated tactile afferents

  Håkan Olausson;Johan Wessberg;India Morrison;Francis McGlone

  620
  Citations

• Human C-tactile afferents are tuned to the temperature of a skin-stroking caress.

  Rochelle Ackerley;Helena Backlund Wasling;Jaquette Liljencrantz;Jaquette Liljencrantz;Håkan Olausson

  463
  Citations

• Discriminative touch and emotional touch.

  Francis McGlone;Åke Vallbo;Håkan Olausson;Line Sofie Löken

  366
  Citations

• Vicarious Responses to Social Touch in Posterior Insular Cortex Are Tuned to Pleasant Caressing Speeds

  India Morrison;Malin Björnsdotter;Håkan Olausson

  341
  Citations

• Touching and feeling: differences in pleasant touch processing between glabrous and hairy skin in humans

  F. McGlone;H. Olausson;J. A. Boyle;M. Jones-Gotman

  319
  Citations

• Somatotopic Organization of Gentle Touch Processing in the Posterior Insular Cortex

  Malin Björnsdotter;Line Löken;Håkan Olausson;Ake Vallbo

  318
  Citations

• A system of unmyelinated afferents for innocuous mechanoreception in the human skin.

  A˚ke Vallbo;Ha˚kan Olausson;Johan Wessberg;Ulf Norrsell

  296
  Citations

• Receptive field characteristics of tactile units with myelinated afferents in hairy skin of human subjects.

  A B Vallbo;H Olausson;J Wessberg;N Kakuda

  280
  Citations

• Touch perceptions across skin sites: differences between sensitivity, direction discrimination and pleasantness

  Rochelle Ackerley;Rochelle Ackerley;Ida Carlsson;Henric Wester;Håkan Olausson;Håkan Olausson

  249
  Citations

• Feeling good: on the role of C fiber mediated touch in interoception

  Malin Björnsdotter;India Morrison;Håkan Olausson

  233
  Citations

• Functional role of unmyelinated tactile afferents in human hairy skin: sympathetic response and perceptual localization

  Håkan Olausson;Jonathan Cole;Karin Rylander;Francis McGlone

  226
  Citations

• Reduced C-afferent fibre density affects perceived pleasantness and empathy for touch

  India Morrison;India Morrison;Line S. Löken;Jan Minde;Johan Wessberg

  223
  Citations

• Receptive Field Properties of Unmyelinated Tactile Afferents in the Human Skin

  Johan Wessberg;Håkan Olausson;Håkan Olausson;Katarina Wiklund Fernström;Åke B. Vallbo

  217
  Citations

• The Neurobiology Shaping Affective Touch: Expectation, Motivation, and Meaning in the Multisensory Context

  Dan Mikael Ellingsen;Dan Mikael Ellingsen;Siri Leknes;Guro Engvig Løseth;Johan Wessberg

  213
  Citations

• Interpersonal stroking touch is targeted to C tactile afferent activation.

  Ilona Croy;Ilona Croy;A. Luong;C. Triscoli;E. Hofmann

  189
  Citations

• Unmyelinated tactile afferents have opposite effects on insular and somatosensory cortical processing

  Håkan W. Olausson;Jonathan Cole;Åke Vallbo;Francis McGlone

  187
  Citations