The Effect of Stimulation of the Senses of Vision, Hearing, Taste, and Smell Upon the Sensibility of the Organs of Vision

Allen, Frank; Schwartz, Manuel

doi:10.1085/jgp.24.1.105

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“…The converse direction of effect ö odour 3 vision interaction ö has been much less investigated, although it has been pioneered early (Allen and Schwartz 1940). More recently, subtle interactions between olfaction and vision have been highlighted.…”

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The Nose Tells it to the Eyes: Crossmodal Associations between Olfaction and Vision

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Crossmodal linkage between the olfactory and visual senses is still largely underexplored. In this study, we investigated crossmodal olfactory-visual associations by testing whether and how visual processing of objects is affected by the presence of olfactory cues. To this end, we explored the influence of prior learned associations between an odour (eg odour of orange) and a visual stimulus naturally associated with that odour (picture of orange) on the movements of the eyes over a complex scene. Participants were asked to freely explore a photograph containing an odour-related visual cue embedded among other objects while being exposed to the corresponding odour (subjects were unaware of the presence of the odour). Eye movements were recorded to analyse the order and distribution of fixations on each object of the scene. Our data show that the odour-related visual cue was explored faster and for a shorter time in the presence of the congruent odour. These findings suggest that odours can affect visual processing by attracting attention to the possible odour source and by facilitating its identification.

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“…Maruyama (1957Maruyama ( , 1959 found that this effect is dependent on the frequency and intensity of the auditory stimulus. Kravkov and subsequent researchers have found that sensitivity to green light increases as sound intensity increased, but that this effect is reversed for orange-red light (Allen and Schwartz, 1940;Kravkov, 1936Kravkov, , 1939Letourneau, 1972;Letourneau and Zeidel, 1971). Other studies have found inhibitory effects (Davis, 1966;Maloney and Welch, 1972) and that the effect is dependent on the temporal relationship between the stimuli in each modality (Broussard, Walker, and Roberts, 1952;Coleman and Krauskopf, 1956;Ince, 1968) or with no effect whatsoever (Symons, 1963).…”

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Auditory-visual interactions

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Scharine²

2009

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Most displays or other devices designed to communicate information focus on a single sensory modality. This is perhaps a consequence of the fact that most research examining human perceptual capabilities has focused on a single sensory system at a time. However, most events in the natural environment generate physical information affecting multiple sensory modalities. This information is typically co-located in both space and time, and our perceptual systems have evolved to create a single coherent representation of our environment. Recent research has increasingly acknowledged the importance of these regularities, and the topic of multisensory integration became critical for understanding global awareness of the environment. This chapter presents an overview of the most recent research into the integration of auditory and visual information and presents considerations for the design of multisensory (i.e., auditory-visual) displays. The initial section of the chapter presents comparison of the basic features of the auditory and visual modalities and examines the effects of interacting visual and auditory stimuli. Included in this section is a discussion of the relative strengths and weaknesses of each modality and the situations in which one modality dominates. This section is followed by a discussion of perceptual effects when information from both modalities is complementary or conflicting and the role of multisensory attention on the perception of auditory-visual information. The final section of the chapter presents a discussion of the applications of auditory-visual integration principles to audiovisual display (e.g., helmet-mounted displays [HMDs]) and signal designs. Research on the interaction of a third modality, tactile or haptic displays, is just beginning and will not be discussed extensively here, although many of the same considerations can be expected to apply (see Chapter 18, Exploring the Tactile Modality for HMDs).

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“…Or, in other words, does (or can) what we taste/smell capture and/or change, what we see? The most relevant evidence on the latter question, comes from research showing that olfactory cues can be used to draw people's visual attention to the congruent, or related, stimuli in a visual scene (e.g., see Chen, Zhou, Chen, He, & Zhou, 2013;Seigneuric, Durand, Jiang, Baudouin, & Schaal, 2010;Seo, Roidl, Müller, & Negoias, 2010; see also Allen & Schwartz, 1940, for early work on this topic). So, for example, both Seigneuric et al and Seo et al reported that olfactory stimuli tend to bias free-viewing behaviour (i.e., overt visual attention), such that participants are more likely to look at the object that is linked to (or associated with) the smell than they are when the odour is absent.…”

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Attending to the Chemical Senses

Spence

2019

Multisens. Res.

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Theorizing around the topic of attention and its role in human information processing largely emerged out of research on the so-called spatial senses: vision, audition, and to a lesser extent, touch. Thus far, the chemical senses have received far less research interest (or should that be attention) from those experimental psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists interested in the topic. Nevertheless, this review highlights the key role that attentional selection also plays in chemosensory information processing and awareness. Indeed, many of the same theoretical approaches/experimental paradigms that were originally developed in the context of the spatial senses, can be (and in some cases already have been) extended to provide a useful framework for thinking about the perception of taste/flavour. Furthermore, a number of those creative individuals interested in modifying the perception of taste/flavour by manipulating product-extrinsic cues (such as, for example, music in the case of sonic seasoning) are increasingly looking to attentional accounts in order to help explain the empirical phenomena that they are starting to uncover. However, separate from its role in explaining sonic seasoning, gaining a better understanding of the role of attentional distraction in modulating our eating/drinking behaviours really ought to be a topic of growing societal concern. This is because distracted diners (e.g., those who eat while watching TV, fiddling with a mobile device or smartphone, or even while driving) consume significantly more than those who mindfully pay attention to the sensations associated with eating and drinking.

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The Effect of Stimulation of the Senses of Vision, Hearing, Taste, and Smell Upon the Sensibility of the Organs of Vision

Cited by 22 publications

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The Nose Tells it to the Eyes: Crossmodal Associations between Olfaction and Vision

The Nose Tells it to the Eyes: Crossmodal Associations between Olfaction and Vision

Auditory-visual interactions

Attending to the Chemical Senses

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