Using visual, auditory, tactile and even
olfactory stimuli, retailers can not only highlight certain products in the pet store, but also put customers in the mood to make a purchase.
First, in order to see if the used
olfactory stimuli differed in their perceived pleasantness and intensity, the pleasantness and intensity scores of the
olfactory stimuli were analyzed with a t - test for independent samples.
«There has been a lot of prejudice that people are not that influenced by
olfactory stimuli, especially compared to other mammals,» says Lilianne Mujica - Parodi, who studies the neurobiology of human stress at Stony Brook...
The piriform cortex could be a structure that serves not only to process
olfactory stimuli but rather to integrate and memorize different types of data.
Not surprisingly, even healthy individuals show significant changes in brain wave activity during brief exposures to
olfactory stimuli that are actually below the sensory threshold and not even consciously perceived.
The chemical odor codes are translated into
olfactory stimulus patterns when food is consumed.
Not exact matches
a.Perception of visual, auditory, tactile,
olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external
stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.
Moreover, other experiments revealed that the insects could even transfer their knowledge across the senses: bees that learned about sameness through
olfactory training were able to apply that concept to situations involving visual
stimuli.
On the other hand, «gender» is a cultural concept referring to behaviors which might be directed by specific
stimuli (visual,
olfactory) or by psychosocial expectations that result from assigned or perceived sex and therefore can influence biological outcomes.
Thompson, RR Moore, FL. (2003) The effects of testosterone and vasotocin on behavioral responses to visual and
olfactory female sexual
stimuli in ovariectomized female roughskin newts.
Even though the participants could not attentively differentiate the chemosensory
stimuli, emotional contagion seems to be effectively mediated by the
olfactory system.
Furudono, Y.; Cruz, G.; Lowe, G. (2013) Glomerular input patterns in the mouse
olfactory bulb evoked by retronasal odor
stimuli.
To increase the effect of the exposure, patients were asked to write in the first person and in present tense and to give detailed descriptions of all sensory details they experienced during the traumatic event, including
olfactory, visual, and auditory
stimuli.