The psychophysiological effects of touch and odor

Name: Anuch Salout

ThaSH: Buddhism and science

ThaSH: Science -- Religious aspects

ThaSH: Touch

ThaSH: Odors

ThaSH: วิทยานิพนธ์ -- ปริญญาเอก

ThaSH: วิทยานิพนธ์ -- ภาษาอังกฤษ

Abstract: In everyday life, the emotional perception often occurred in different modalities at once but knowledge about multisensory perception on emotion was minimal. To understand emotional integration, odors and touch were used in two experiments. The first experiment was conducted to distinguish the emotional effects of different odors and to examine the effect of gender difference with respect to emotional perception. The aim of the second experiment was to determine the emotional integration of bimodal stimuli. The self-report and psychophysiological responses from forty-five participants were computed. Data were analyzed by twoway mixed ANOVA and two-way repeated measures ANOVA, statistical significance at the .05 level. The findings highlight that there was no crossed interaction between olfactory and tactile modalities in the aspect of emotion. The bimodal stimuli did not enhance the emotional perception of unimodal stimuli. Civet oil markedly elicited an unpleasantness. Michelia oil elicited objective arousal, meanwhile, Lavender oil elicited a pleasant feeling. In addition, 3 cm/s stroking touch elicited subjective pleasantness with moderate arousal, and 30 cm/s stroking touch elicited high arousal without the feeling of pleasantness. Moreover, men are more sensitive to some type of odor than women especially unpleasant odors and arousing odors. This was the first work that studied the bimodal emotional perception between olfactory and tactile modalities and was a first study that revealed the peripheral psychophysiological effects of C-tactile afferents. A further study should investigate an impact of gender and culture to emotional integration and a consistency of finding.

Burapha University. Library

Address: CHONBURI

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Name: Suchada Kornpetpanee

Role: Principal advisor

Name: Remo Job

Role: Principal advisor

Name: Massimiliano Zampini

Role: Co-advisor

Created: 2016

Modified: 2565-02-15

Issued: 2019-06-06

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CallNumber: Th294.3015 An636P

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DegreeName: Doctor of Philosophy

Level: Doctoral Degree

Descipline: Research and Statistics in Cognitive Science

Grantor: Burapha University

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