Questioning the automaticity of audiovisual correspondences

Getz, Laura M.; Kubovy, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.015

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“…The high hypnotisability of mirror touch synaesthetes presents a simple explanation for this; one of the defining characteristics of high hypnotisables is an ability to generate alterations of the experience of agency. However, at this stage it cannot be ruled out that there may even be phenomenological control effects in apparently low level tasks, if those tasks are not as free of top-down influence as has been assumed (e.g., Lifshitz et al, 2013;Getz & Kubovy, 2018). Predictions of relationships between candidate measures can be straightforwardly tested using trait measures of phenomenological control, as in the present studies.…”

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Phenomenological control: response to imaginative suggestion predicts measures of mirror touch synaesthesia, vicarious pain and the rubber hand illusion

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Rb³

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The control of top down processes to generate experience has been studied within the context of hypnosis since the birth of psychological science. In hypnotic responding, expectancies arising from imaginative suggestion drive striking experiential changes (e.g., hallucinations) – which are experienced as involuntary – according to a normally distributed and stable trait ability (hypnotisability). Such experiences can be triggered by implicit suggestion and occur outside the hypnotic context. The possibility that they account for experiential change in psychological studies has been overlooked. In large sample studies (of 156, 404 and 353 participants) we report substantial relationships between hypnotisability and experimental measures of experiential change (mirror-sensory synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion) comparable to relationships between hypnotisability and individual hypnosis scale items. The control of phenomenology to meet expectancies arising from perceived task requirements can account for experiential change in psychological experiments.

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confidence: 77%

Phenomenological control: response to imaginative suggestion predicts measures of mirror touch synaesthesia, vicarious pain and the rubber hand illusion

Lush¹,

Botan²,

Rb³

et al. 2019

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“…Indeed, mirror-touch synaesthetes are particularly vulnerable to manipulations of the experience of agency 77 . However, it cannot be ruled out that there may even be some phenomenological control effects in apparently low level tasks, if those tasks are not as free of top-down influence (for example, if demand characteristics have not been well controlled) as has been assumed 78,79 . These intriguing empirical questions remain open.…”

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Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion

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In hypnotic responding, expectancies arising from imaginative suggestion drive striking experiential changes (e.g., hallucinations) — which are experienced as involuntary — according to a normally distributed and stable trait ability (hypnotisability). Such experiences can be triggered by implicit suggestion and occur outside the hypnotic context. In large sample studies (of 156, 404 and 353 participants), we report substantial relationships between hypnotisability and experimental measures of experiential change in mirror-sensory synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion comparable to relationships between hypnotisability and individual hypnosis scale items. The control of phenomenology to meet expectancies arising from perceived task requirements can account for experiential change in psychological experiments.

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“…Otherwise, there might be a danger of the taster concentrating on the loudness of the sound or perhaps its duration instead, rather than necessarily on the relevant dimension, in this case, namely, the pitch. Crossmodal correspondences, in other words, are typically not established automatically (e.g., Getz & Kubovy, 2018;. In this regard, it is interesting to note that when the culinary artist Caroline Hobkinson served the bittersweet sonic cake pop at her popup dining experience at the House of Wolf restaurant, diners were actually encouraged to take out their phone and dial one number in order to listen to 'sweet' music while dialling another number if they wanted to bring out the bitterness in their dessert instead (see Spence, 2017a).…”

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Extrinsic Auditory Contributions to Food Perception & Consumer Behaviour: an Interdisciplinary Review

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Food product-extrinsic sounds (i.e., those auditory stimuli that are not linked directly to a food or beverage product, or its packaging) have been shown to exert a significant influence over various aspects of food perception and consumer behaviour, often operating outside of conscious awareness. In this review, we summarise the latest evidence concerning the various ways in which what we hear can influence what we taste. According to one line of empirical research, background noise interferes with tasting, due to attentional distraction. A separate body of marketing-relevant research demonstrates that music can be used to bias consumers’ food perception, judgments, and purchasing/consumption behaviour in various ways. Some of these effects appear to be driven by the arousal elicited by loud music as well as the entrainment of people’s behaviour to the musical beat. However, semantic priming effects linked to the type and style of music are also relevant. Another route by which music influences food perception comes from the observation that our liking/preference for the music that we happen to be listening to carries over to influence our hedonic judgments of what we are tasting. A final route by which hearing influences tasting relates to the emerging field of ‘sonic seasoning’. A developing body of research now demonstrates that people often rate tasting experiences differently when listening to soundtracks that have been designed to be (or are chosen because they are) congruent with specific flavour experiences (e.g., when compared to when listening to other soundtracks, or else when tasting in silence). Taken together, such results lead to the growing realization that the crossmodal influences of music and noise on food perception and consumer behaviour may have some important if, as yet, unrecognized implications for public health.

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Questioning the automaticity of audiovisual correspondences

Cited by 30 publications

References 42 publications

Phenomenological control: response to imaginative suggestion predicts measures of mirror touch synaesthesia, vicarious pain and the rubber hand illusion

Phenomenological control: response to imaginative suggestion predicts measures of mirror touch synaesthesia, vicarious pain and the rubber hand illusion

Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion

Extrinsic Auditory Contributions to Food Perception & Consumer Behaviour: an Interdisciplinary Review

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