title: Data on thermal infrared imaging in laboratory non-human primates: Pleasant touch determines an increase in nasal skin temperature without affecting that of the eye lachrymal sites.
abstract: The data described here relate to the article entitled "The effect of pleasant touch on nose skin temperature, heart rate and heart rate variability: preliminary results in a male laboratory rhesus monkey" (Grandi and Heinzl, 2016) [1]. The cited paper and article here present additional material which represents the first evidence of the effect of pleasant touch in non-human primates in terms of skin temperature change, as recorded by means of infrared thermography. The sweep is considered a pleasant touch for monkeys. Here we forward preliminary evidence concerning the modulation of the eye lachrymal site temperature while a monkey received sweeps to the back from a familiar experimenter, and at different speeds (Grandi and Heinzl, 2016) [1].
authors.affiliation: Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: Laura Clara
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Grandi
authors.affiliation: Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria DiMeVet, 20133 Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Heinzl
keywords: Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Infrared thermography; Non-human primates; Pleasant touch