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Deep pressure touch can be felt as pleasant and calming, although sometimes intense. It is often experienced in interactions with others, such as a hug, and is used in manual therapy, including massage, to relive musculoskeletal pain. We aim to investigate how such deep touch is encoded by periphera

Focus in theoretical neuroscience has traditionally been directed at neurons and synaptic connectivity as the primary mediators of information processing in the brain. This view is beginning to be reshaped by a recognition of multicellular contributions to neural computation, including by astrocyt

The rhythmic sweep of rodent vibrissae during active touch is an ideal system to study the coding, circuitry, and dynamics of active sensing. We use this system to ask how an active sensory system can form a transient robust response that is invariant to details of the sensation. Here, the response

Social networks play a crucial role in informal transmission of information across society. Although there have been extensive efforts to characterize the neural mechanisms involved in social decision making and learning, the focus has mainly been on dyadic interactions. In contrast, interactions in