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Color Correspondences in Chemosensation
Published in Alan R. Hirsch, Nutrition and Sensation, 2023
Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, Charles Spence
In terms of understanding the effects of these extrinsic elements on the consumer’s perception and evaluation of a food, a number of potentially relevant psychological and physiological explanations have been documented. Given that these cues do not come from the food itself, they could presumably be considered as being non-diagnostic (i.e., they objectively should not identify or prompt any effect in our perception of food). Therefore, the crossmodal correspondences that have been observed between the intrinsic and extrinsic elements of a food product could be regarded as giving rise to sensation transference (Cheskin 1957; Schifferstein 2009). Cognitive neuroscience researchers have recently started to provide an explanation for why sensation transference effects may occur.
Integrative Synchronization Mechanisms and Models in the Cognitive Neurosciences
Published in Harald Maurer, Cognitive Science, 2021
FAs far as the second subproblem of intermodal sensory integration is concerned, initial experimental evidence for the synchronization hypothesis has been verified by several research groups in recent years.311Hipp et al. (2011) provided evidence for the existence of dynamic functional large-scale synchronized clusters underlying the crossmodal integration of auditory and visual information in humans. Wang et al. (2019) have analyzed the integration of sensory signals from different modalities (visuotactile pattern matching task) by a transient synchronization mechanism across the theta (~ 5 Hz), alpha (~ 10 Hz), and beta (~ 20 Hz) frequency bands. Within a task in which human participants (male and female) matched changes in amplitude of concurrent visual, auditory and tactile stimuli, Misselhorn et al. (2019) has shown that "coordinated sensory gamma oscillations play an important role for direct cross-modal interactions" and suggest that, "comparable to interactions within sensory streams, phase-coupled gamma oscillations might provide the functional scaffold for cross-modal communication."
Beyond the Bayley: Neurocognitive Assessments of Development During Infancy and Toddlerhood
Published in Developmental Neuropsychology, 2019
Natalie H. Brito, William P. Fifer, Dima Amso, Rachel Barr, Martha Ann Bell, Susan Calkins, Albert Flynn, Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs, Lisa M. Oakes, John E. Richards, Larissa M. Samuelson, John Colombo
Although global, standardized instruments for the evaluation of developmental status of infants and toddlers have their place in early assessment, exclusively or predominantly relying on such tests for evaluating the effects of clinical trials or interventions may underestimate or miss specific effects on early cognition. In this review, we put forth plausible candidates for domain-based assessments of neurobehavioral development in toddlers that have been successfully used across a range of developmental psychology laboratories. Not all cognitive skills were able to be covered within this review. For example, intersensory or crossmodal perception is a vital aspect of early learning (Bahrick & Lickliter, 2000; Bahrick, Lickliter, & Castellanos, 2013) and related to a number of domains mentioned here (Bahrick, 2010; Bahrick, Lickliter, & Flom, 2004; Gogate, Maganti, & Perenyi, 2014). Another limitation of this review is that some domain-based tests are limited, as normative developmental trajectories and psychometric properties (validity, reliability, fidelity, and predictive validity) necessary for making clinical/health claims have not yet been well-established. Despite these limitations, however, the use of such domain-specific assessments may have great potential for increased sensitivity and specificity that may not be evident with more global measures, and for assessing constructs that are most relevant for cross-validation with preclinical animal models and extrapolation to cognitive outcomes later in childhood.
THE NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY OF OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES INDUCED BY HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS
Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2019
Enrico Facco, Edoardo Casiglia, Benedikt Emanuel Al Khafaji, Francesco Finatti, Gian Marco Duma, Giovanni Mento, Luciano Pederzoli, Patrizio Tressoldi
OBEs in nonclinical populations have been linked with impaired fronto-parietal attentional networks, which may depend on several factors, including personality features, proneness to synesthesia, and the use of cannabis (Easton, Blanke, & Mohr, 2009; Overney, Arzy, & Blanke, 2009; Terhune, 2009). In this regard, it is worth recalling that the right parietal cortex is involved in the integration of multisensory information (Kanayama, Sato, & Ohira, 2007, 2009), an activity involved in both OBEs and synaesthesia—the latter engendering a sensory–visual crossmodal processing.