Cutaneous Warm and Cool Sensation Thresholds and the Inter-threshold Zone in Malaysian and Japanese Males

Lee, Joo Young; Saat, Mohamed; Chou, Chinmei; Hashiguchi, Nobuko; Wijayanto, Titis; Wakabayashi, Hisao; Tochihara, Yutaka

doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2009.11.002

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“…In relatively young or middle-aged participants, it has been previously reported that humans are more sensitive to a cold stimulus in comparison to a warm stimulus using either threshold detection, method of limits or magnitude estimation [16,492,19]. This study supports these findings and also indicates that this is still apparent in aged individuals.…”

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Sex differences in age-related changes on peripheral warm and cold innocuous thermal sensitivity

Inoue

Gerrett

Ichinose-Kuwahara

et al. 2016

Physiology & Behavior

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Sex differences in age-related changes on peripheral warm and cold innocuous thermal sensitivity

Inoue

Gerrett

Ichinose-Kuwahara

et al. 2016

Physiology & Behavior

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“…Finally, although the neurological and molecular basis of thermal sensations have been largely investigated and described [28,31,33], individual thermal sensations are much more difficult to predict due to other parameters relating to wider and more complex relationships between physiological and psychological responses [23,27]. For instance, the inter-individual variability is a critical factor in determining the psychological responses resulting from somatic stimulation, as shown in the role played by individual characteristics such as gender, age, ethnicity and physical fitness in influencing the cutaneous thermal thresholds and thus the variability of thermal sensations [19,23].…”

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“…For instance, the inter-individual variability is a critical factor in determining the psychological responses resulting from somatic stimulation, as shown in the role played by individual characteristics such as gender, age, ethnicity and physical fitness in influencing the cutaneous thermal thresholds and thus the variability of thermal sensations [19,23].…”

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The role of decreasing contact temperatures and skin cooling in the perception of skin wetness

Filingeri

Redortier²,

Hodder

et al. 2013

Neuroscience Letters

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Cold sensations are suggested as the primary inducer of the perception of skin wetness.However, limited data are available on the effects of skin cooling. Hence, we investigated the role of peripheral cold afferents in the perception of wetness. Six cold-dry stimuli (producing skin cooling rates in a range of 0.02 to 0.41°C/s) were applied on the forearm of 9 female participants.Skin temperature and conductance, thermal and wetness perception were recorded. Five out of 9 participants perceived wetness as a result of cold-dry stimuli with cooling rates in a range of 0.14 to 0.41°C/s, while 4 did not perceive skin wetness at all. Although skin cooling and cold sensations play a role in evoking the perception of wetness, these are not always of a primary importance and other sensory modalities (i.e. touch and vision), as well as the inter-individual variability in thermal sensitivity, might be equally determinant in characterising this perception.

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“…The physiological responses of the human body to environmental stimuli have been widely studied in the literature [31][32][33].…”

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Probabilistic adaptive thermal comfort for resilient design

Coley

Herrera

Fosas

et al. 2017

Building and Environment

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Adaptive thermal comfort theory has become the bedrock of much thinking about how to judge if a free-running environment is suitable for human occupation. In design work, the conditions predicted by a thermal model, when the model is presented with one possible annual weather time series (a reference year), are compared to the limits of human comfort. If the temperatures are within the comfort limits, the building is judged to be suitable. However, the weather in many locations can vary year-on-year by a considerable margin, and this begs the question, how robust are the predictions of adaptive comfort theory likely to be over the many years a building might be in use? We answer this question using weather data recorded for up to 30 years for locations within each of the five major Köppen climate classifications.We find that the variation in the annual time series is so great that the predicted comfort temperature frequently lies outside the acceptable range given by the reference year. Return periods for the excursions of the time series are calculated for each location. The results for one location are then validated using the world's longest temperature record. These results suggest that industry and academia would be best advised to move to a probabilistic methodology, like the proposed one, when using adaptive comfort theory to judge the likely conditions within a building. Extra pertinence is provided by concerns over increases in mortality and morbidity in buildings due to a rapidly warming climate. • A new probabilistic adaptive comfort theory introduced.• New comfort equations for resilient building design presented.

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Cutaneous Warm and Cool Sensation Thresholds and the Inter-threshold Zone in Malaysian and Japanese Males

Cited by 63 publications

References 33 publications

Sex differences in age-related changes on peripheral warm and cold innocuous thermal sensitivity

Sex differences in age-related changes on peripheral warm and cold innocuous thermal sensitivity

The role of decreasing contact temperatures and skin cooling in the perception of skin wetness

Probabilistic adaptive thermal comfort for resilient design

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