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TAPKI, Sinem. "SENSATIONS IN URBAN SPACE: SENSATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE YELDEĞİRMENİ AREA." INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNAL OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, no. 26 (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.17365/tmd.2022.turkey.26.03.
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Aim: This research aims to examine the forms and features of understanding and grasping urban space through the senses. In the study, unlike the eye-centred paradigm, it discusses the importance of understanding urban space, not only with the sense of sight, but also with other senses, and its importance in making sense of it. Method: Between January and September 2021, Kadıköy Yeldeğirmeni, Rıhtım Avenue, Karakolhane Street and İskele Street were experienced and sensory analysis of these experienced axes was made.The sensations felt were evaluated using graphical expression in the computer environment. During the sensory analysis, no instrument was used to measure the intensity of the sensations, and the experiencing body was taken as the basis. The scale showing the intensity of the sensations is subjective, and the interval regions in the diagrams are not a mathematical value, but the experienced area. Results: According to the sensory analysis, the sensations and dominant sensations on the three axes differ. The factors that create each sensation are also different. It was determined that sound, motion and visual sensations were dominant in İskele Street, sound sensation in Rıhtım Street, and sound and smell sensation in Karakolhane Street. In this study, in which the eye-centred paradigm was questioned, it was noted that urban space can be grasped with multi-sensational perception. Although visual sense is dominant today, urban experiences consist of the sum of sight, smell, sound, muscle-balance and touch senses. The fact that visuality comes to the fore in the representation of sensations also shows the need for new studies to be done.
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Shakya, Sudha. "COLOR VISION DEFECT: COLOR BLINDNESS." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 2, no. 3SE (December 31, 2014): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v2.i3se.2014.3619.
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Humans have many types of sensations such as sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste etc. They originate from stimulants, which a person receives from their external environment, stimulate the stimulating senses i.e. eye, ear, skin, nose and tongue, and produce different sensations. According to Eiseneck (1972), "sensation is a mental process that is no longer divisible." It is produced by external stimuli that affect the senses, and its intensity depends on the stimulus, and its properties depend on the nature of the senses. Apart from these five sensations, there are other sensations such as incidental sensation, static sensation and motion sensation.
मानव में कई प्रकार की संवेदनाएं होती हैं जैसे दृष्टि, श्रवण, स्पर्श, गंध, स्वाद आदि। इनकी उत्पत्ति उद्दीपकों से होती है, जिसे व्यक्ति अपने बाह्य पर्यावरण से ग्रहण करता है, यह उद्दीपक ज्ञानेन्द्रियों अर्थात आंख, कान, त्वचा, नाक और जिव्हा को उद्दीप्त करते हैं, और विभिन्न संवेदना को उत्पन्न करते हैं। आइजनेक (1972) के अनुसार ‘‘ संवेदना एक मानसिक प्रक्रम है जो आगे विभाजन योग्य नहीं होता। यह ज्ञानेन्द्रियों को प्रभावित करने वाली बाह्य उत्तेजना द्वारा उत्पादित होता है, तथा इसकी तीव्रता उत्तेजना पर निर्भर करती है, और इसके गुण ज्ञानेन्द्रिय की प्रकृति पर निर्भर करते हैं। इन पांच संवेदनाओं के अतिरिक्त अन्य संवेदना भी है जैसे आंगिक संवेदना, स्थैतिक संवेदना तथा गति संवेदना।
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Goyel, Vinita, Aman Jain, Shivani Mathur, Vinod Sachdev, and Shambhavi Singh. "Exploring the Effect on 5 Senses in Children under Nitrous Oxide Sedation." Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 10, no. 38 (September 20, 2021): 3365–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.14260/jemds/2021/683.
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BACKGROUND Sensation and perception are two separate processes that are very closely related. Sensation is the input about the outside world obtained by our sensory receptors while perception is the difficult system by which the brain selects, organizes and interprets these sensations. Effects of nitrous oxide on the sensation and perception has not been unturned although role in physiological, anxiolytic, behavioural, psychomotor and analgesic parameters have been examined in both children and adults. The human senses have long been unnoticed, despite their responsiveness being of great importance. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of nitrous oxide inhalation sedation on 5 senses i.e. sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste at different titrations of nitrous oxide and oxygen. METHODS 7 to 12 years old children with Frankl’s behaviour rating score of 2, 3 and 4 with no prior dental experience and requiring dental treatment under nitrous oxide sedation who were systemically healthy were included in the study. The 5 senses (i.e. hearing, touch, smell, taste and vision) were evaluated with different materials at 4 different titration levels to evaluate the effect of nitrous oxide on the 5 senses T0: 100 % oxygen, T1: 30 % nitrous oxide, T2: 50 % nitrous oxide, T3: 100 % oxygen. RESULTS The results of the present study depicted that there is significant difference in the perception of various senses at different concentrations of nitrous oxide and also when compared to baseline values. It was observed that the patient regained the normal perception in 5 minutes after 100 % oxygen post-operatively. CONCLUSIONS Nitrous oxide is found to depress/relax one’s senses too. KEY WORDS Vision, Smell, Taste, Touch, Sound, Perception, Consciousness, Nitrous Oxide Sedation, Oxygen, Behaviour
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Sanders, John T. "Retinae don't see." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, no. 6 (December 2004): 890–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04250208.
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Sensation should indeed be understood globally: some infant behaviors do not make sense on the model of separate senses; neonates of all species lack time to learn about the world by triangulating among different senses. Considerations of natural selection favor a global understanding; and the global interpretation is not as opposed to traditional work on sensation as might seem.
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Terada, Kazunori, Akinori Kumazaki, Daisuke Miyata, and Akira Ito. "Haptic Length Display Based on Cutaneous-Proprioceptive Integration." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 18, no. 4 (August 20, 2006): 489–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2006.p0489.
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When a human recognizes length of an object while exploring it with an index finger, both proprioception and cutaneous sensation provide information for estimating the length of the object. We studied the contribution of cutaneous sensation and proprioception to the subjective estimation of object length, developing an apparatus for investigating the human cutaneous-proprioceptive integration using velocity dependency of cutaneous and proprioceptive length perception. We conducted four experiments. In experiment 1, 12 subjects estimated object length passively, using cutaneous sensation only via the index finger. In experiment 2, ten subjects estimated the distance if index finger traveled passively without cutaneous sensation. In experiment 3, subjects used both cutaneous and proprioceptive sensation to estimate the object length. The results showed that using both senses simultaneously improves length perception. In experiment 4, 17 subjects estimated object length moving the index finger passively but with the cutaneous sensation and proprioception differing in perceived length. The results showed that subjects relied on the greater sensation if proprioceptive and cutaneous sensations were discrepant.
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de Freitas, Elizabeth, David Rousell, and Nils Jäger. "Relational architectures and wearable space: Smart schools and the politics of ubiquitous sensation." Research in Education 107, no. 1 (November 15, 2019): 10–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034523719883667.
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This paper undertakes an analysis of the “smart school” as a building that both senses and manages bodies through sensory data. The authors argue that smart schools produce a situation of ubiquitous sensation in which learning environments are continuously sensed, regulated, and controlled through complex sensory ecosystems and data infrastructures. This includes the consideration of ethical and political issues associated with the collection of biometric and environmental data in schools and the implications for the design and operation of learning environments which are increasingly regulated through decentralized sensor networks. Working through a relational and adaptive theory of architecture, the authors explore ways of intervening in smart schools through the reconceptualization of sensor technologies as “atmospheric media” that operate within a distributed ecology of sensation that exceeds the limited bandwidth of the human senses. Drawing on recent projects in contemporary art, architecture, and interaction design, the authors discuss specific architectural interventions that foreground the atmospheric qualities and ethical problematics of sensor technologies in school buildings.
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Sakai, Nobuyuki. "Sensation and perception of chemical senses." Journal of Japan Association on Odor Environment 37, no. 6 (2006): 397. http://dx.doi.org/10.2171/jao.37.397.
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Dunbar, Maureen E., and Jacqueline J. Shade. "Exploring the Links between Sensation & Perception." American Biology Teacher 83, no. 6 (August 1, 2021): 377–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.6.377.
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In a traditional anatomy and physiology lab, the general senses – temperature, pain, touch, pressure, vibration, and proprioception – and the special senses – olfaction (smell), vision, gustation (taste), hearing, and equilibrium – are typically taught in isolation. In reality, information derived from these individual senses interacts to produce the complex sensory experience that constitutes perception. To introduce students to the concept of multisensory integration, a crossmodal perception lab was developed. In this lab, students explore how vision impacts olfaction and how vision and olfaction interact to impact flavor perception. Students are required to perform a series of multisensory tasks that focus on the interaction of multiple sensory inputs and their impact on flavor and scent perception. Additionally, students develop their own hypothesis as to which sensory modalities they believe will best assist them in correctly identifying the flavor of a candy: taste alone, taste paired with scent, or taste paired with vision. Together these experiments give students an appreciation for multisensory integration while also encouraging them to actively engage in the scientific method. They are then asked to hypothesize the possible outcome of one last experiment after collecting and assessing data from the prior tasks.
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Sincar, Cerasela Dorina, Camelia Ana Grigore, Silvia Martu, Liliana Lacramioara Pavel, Alina Calin, Alina Plesea Condratovici, and Bianca Ioana Chesaru. "Chemical Senses Taste Sensation and Chemical Composition." Materiale Plastice 54, no. 1 (March 30, 2017): 172–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.37358/mp.17.1.4810.
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Taste and smell are chemical senses, which means that the receptors (chemoreceptors) of these senses respond to chemical stimuli. In order for a substance to produce a taste sensation, it should be ingested in a solution or subsequently dissolved in saliva; a solid substance put in the mouth perfectly dry is tasteless. Therefore, taste receptors or taste buds occur only on wet surfaces, more precisely in the oral cavity in land vertebrates; however, in aquatic animals, these receptors are scattered all over the body. There are functionally different types of receptors for each of the primary tastes and the distribution of each type is not even on the surface of the tongue mucosa. The sweet and sour sensitive buds are located mainly on the tip of the tongue, those sensitive to acids are located on the sides of the tongue and those stimulated by the bitter taste are located towards the back of the tongue and in the epiglottis area. Taste may be generated by substances which touch the taste buds through the blood; thus, histamine injected intravenously causes a metallic taste, glucin a sweet taste, whereas jaundice may trigger a bitter taste due to the big concentration of gallbladder constituents in the blood.
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Shimada, Kunio. "Correlations among Firing Rates of Tactile, Thermal, Gustatory, Olfactory, and Auditory Sensations Mimicked by Artificial Hybrid Fluid (HF) Rubber Mechanoreceptors." Sensors 23, no. 10 (May 9, 2023): 4593. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23104593.
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In order to advance the development of sensors fabricated with monofunctional sensation systems capable of a versatile response to tactile, thermal, gustatory, olfactory, and auditory sensations, mechanoreceptors fabricated as a single platform with an electric circuit require investigation. In addition, it is essential to resolve the complicated structure of the sensor. In order to realize the single platform, our proposed hybrid fluid (HF) rubber mechanoreceptors of free nerve endings, Merkel cells, Krause end bulbs, Meissner corpuscles, Ruffini endings, and Pacinian corpuscles mimicking the bio-inspired five senses are useful enough to facilitate the fabrication process for the resolution of the complicated structure. This study used electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) to elucidate the intrinsic structure of the single platform and the physical mechanisms of the firing rate such as slow adaption (SA) and fast adaption (FA), which were induced from the structure and involved the capacitance, inductance, reactance, etc. of the HF rubber mechanoreceptors. In addition, the relations among the firing rates of the various sensations were clarified. The adaption of the firing rate in the thermal sensation is the opposite of that in the tactile sensation. The firing rates in the gustation, olfaction, and auditory sensations at frequencies of less than 1 kHz have the same adaption as in the tactile sensation. The present findings are useful not only in the field of neurophysiology, to research the biochemical reactions of neurons and brain perceptions of stimuli, but also in the field of sensors, to advance salient developments in sensors mimicking bio-inspired sensations.
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MacIsaac, D. Gregory. "Non enim ab hiis que sensus est iudicare sensum.Sensation and Thought in Theaetetus, Plotinus and Proclus." International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 8, no. 2 (August 20, 2014): 192–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725473-12341287.
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I examine the relation between sensation and discursive thought (dianoia) in Plato, Plotinus, and Proclus. InTheaetetus, a soul whose highest faculty was sensation would have no unified experience of the sensible world, lacking universal ideas to give order to the sensible flux. It is implied that such universals are grasped by the soul’s thinking. In Plotinus the soul is not passive when it senses the world, but as thelogosof all things it thinks the world through its own forms.Proclus argues against the derivation of universallogoifrom the senses, which alone can’t make the sensible world comprehensible. At most they give a record of the original sense-impression in its particularity. The soul’s own projected logoi give the sensible world stability. For Proclus, bare sensation does not depend on thought, but a unified experience of the sense-world depends on its paradigmaticlogoiin our souls.
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Kusanagi, Kenta, Daisuke Sato, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, and Norimasa Yamada. "Water Sensation During Passive Propulsion for Expert and Nonexpert Swimmers." Perceptual and Motor Skills 124, no. 3 (April 19, 2017): 662–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031512517704341.
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This study determined whether expert swimmers, compared with nonexperts, have superior movement perception and physical sensations of propulsion in water. Expert (national level competitors, n = 10) and nonexpert (able to swim 50 m in > 3 styles, n = 10) swimmers estimated distance traveled in water with their eyes closed. Both groups indicated their subjective physical sensations in the water. For each of two trials, two-dimensional coordinates were obtained from video recordings using the two-dimensional direct linear transformation method for calculating changes in speed. The mean absolute error of the difference between the actual and estimated distance traveled in the water was significantly lower for expert swimmers (0.90 ± 0.71 meters) compared with nonexpert swimmers (3.85 ± 0.84 m). Expert swimmers described the sensation of propulsion in water in cutaneous terms as the “sense of flow” and sensation of “skin resistance.” Therefore, expert swimmers appear to have a superior sense of distance during their movement in the water compared with that of nonexpert swimmers. In addition, expert swimmers may have a better perception of movement in water. We propose that expert swimmers integrate sensations and proprioceptive senses, enabling them to better perceive and estimate distance moved through water.
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Shimizu, Shunji, Shuichi Ino, Takeshi Tsuruga, Tohru Ifukube Yuichi Wakisaka, and Takashi Izumi. "Evaluation of a New Force Display using Metal Hydride Alloys." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 9, no. 1 (February 20, 1997): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.1997.p0014.
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It is an important study subject today to develop the method of realizing harmonious sensation feedback to humans not only in the remote manipulation of robots but also in human interface in general. Many study reports on such sensation feedback are available in the fields of visual and acoustic senses, but very few are available in the fields of force and tactile senses. This paper reports on the design, experimental fabrication and evaluates the usefulness of a new force display using a metal hydride (MH) actuator. The actuator made by the MH alloys is one of a few actuators suitable for putting on human. At first, the differential limen for applied force in human was investigated to obtain the design indices of the force display. Then, two types of experiments were carried out to evaluate the availability of the display. The experiments verified that the experimentally fabricated force display is fully capable of displaying continuous force variations on the sensation levels of about 3.5-15.6dB [S.L.] of force. It also verified that the difference between the force that acted on an arm when the arm actually lifted a real object of 20N and the force that was displayed by the force display and sensed to be equivalent to the force of the real object was smaller than the differential limen, indicating that this force display is capable of giving approximately the same force information as real objects to human. As a result, it was verified that the force display using MH actuators is useful.
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Nisa, Akhtar Un, Saifullah Samo, Raheel Ahmed Nizamani, Areesha Irfan, Zuha Anjum, and Laveet Kumar. "Design and Implementation of Force Sensation and Feedback Systems for Telepresence Robotic Arm." Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) 3, no. 5 (September 1, 2022): 710–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18196/jrc.v3i5.15959.
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Humans put their own lives aside to save other human’s life and perform risky and dangerous activities. The risk can be reduced by using new technologies. This research study focuses on telepresence and teleoperation systems with motion and force control systems that replace humans in hazardous workspaces. In telepresence, the system helps humans to visualize the environment in real-time. In teleoperation, the system provides sensation to assist human beings in performing out-of-reach and dangerous operations safely as in real, providing a shadow hand to the operator. In this study, a system is developed that consists of a slave robotic arm and a master wearable device with bidirectional communication between the robotic arm and operator (master wearable device). It also presents a gesture-controlled robotic arm that uses sensors to read and translate human arm movements as commands. The slave robotic arm, senses applied force on an object and a master wearable device develops the force according to sensed force, in a result operator senses/feels the same object in the control room at distance. The slave robotic arm also mimics the operator arm to reach the proper position of an object. Several experiments were conducted with untrained personnel and satisfactory results were yielded, which showed that the motion and force replication is 90-95% accurate.
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Howes, David. "Multisensory Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 48, no. 1 (October 21, 2019): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011324.
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The senses are made, not given. Multisensory anthropology focuses on the variable boundaries, differential elaboration, and many different ways of combining the senses across (and within) cultures. Its methodology is grounded in “participant sensation,” or sensing—and making sense—along with others, also known as sensory ethnography. This review article traces the sensualization of anthropological theory and practice since the early 1990s, showing how the concept of sensory mediation has steadily supplanted the prior concern with representation. It concludes with a discussion of how the senses are engaged in filmmaking, multispecies ethnography, and material culture studies as well as in achieving social justice.
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Costantini, Mariaconcetta. "Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses." Women's Writing 20, no. 2 (March 2013): 268–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2013.773785.
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Desmawati, Alina, and Muhammad Hasan. "The Concept of Pain in Orthodontic Care." Crown: Journal of Dentistry and Health Research 1, no. 2 (December 21, 2023): 50–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.59345/crown.v1i2.89.
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Pain is a subjective sensation that plays a crucial role in physiological illnesses. Orthodontic tooth movement frequently results in pain, serving as a major obstacle for individuals contemplating orthodontic treatment. Moreover, it is a key determinant leading to the cessation of treatment. This review aims to elucidate the notion of pain associated with orthodontic therapy. Nociception, a complex neurophysiological process, involves four component processes: transduction, transmission, modulation, and perception. During nociception, the central nervous system (cortex cerebri) senses the sensation of pain as powerful peripheral stimuli occur.
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Spence, Charles, Fabiana M. Carvalho, and David Howes. "Metallic: A Bivalent Ambimodal Material Property?" i-Perception 12, no. 5 (September 2021): 204166952110377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20416695211037710.
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Many metallic visual stimuli, especially the so-called precious metals, have long had a rich symbolic meaning for humans. Intriguingly, however, while metallic is used to describe sensations associated with pretty much every sensory modality, the descriptor is normally positively valenced in the case of vision while typically being negatively valenced in the case of those metallic sensations that are elicited by the stimulation of the chemical senses. In fact, outside the visual modality, metallic would often appear to be used to describe those sensations that are unfamiliar and unpleasant as much as to refer to any identifiable perceptual quality (or attribute). In this review, we assess those sensory stimuli that people choose to refer to as metallic, summarising the multiple, often symbolic, meanings of (especially precious) metals. The evidence of positively valenced sensation transference from metallic serviceware (e.g., plates, cups, and cutlery) to the food and drink with which it comes into contact is also reviewed.
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Daly, Nicholas. "Railway Novels: Sensation Fiction and the Modernization of the Senses." ELH 66, no. 2 (1999): 461–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.1999.0013.
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Stephens, Elizabeth. "Sensation machine: Film, phenomenology and the training of the senses." Continuum 26, no. 4 (July 27, 2012): 529–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.698033.
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Larson, Scott. "Histrionics of the Pulpit." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 315–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7549428.
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Abstract The eighteenth-century Atlantic world was swept with a radical new form of Christian preaching that aimed to engage the feelings and sensations of mass audiences. In the nineteenth century, this heart-centered preaching became a mainstream form of American Christianity, but in its first hundred years, it was widely regarded as perverse, effeminate, and depraved. Early evangelical Christianity threatened to destabilize social and political orders, to drive the masses “out of their senses,” and to throw gender norms into chaos. This article argues that attention to “trans tonality”—an investigation of trans at the level of tone, expression, and sensation—offers a surprising trans history of early American culture and opens up an archive rich with accounts of gender and sensory variance.
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Liu, Xiaoxiao, Yukari Nagai, Kumi Yabuuchi, and Xiuxia Cui. "USE INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO ENHANCE CREATIVITY OF DESIGNERS BY STIMULATING THE SENSES IN THE CONTEXT OF ART DESIGN EDUCATION." Proceedings of the Design Society 1 (July 27, 2021): 3319–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.593.
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AbstractCreativity is very important for designers, and methods to stimulate designers' creativity are the long-term focus of art design education. The senses are an important channel for designers to receive information and define core issues. Stimulating the designer's senses can help enhance their perception and creativity, and is of great benefit for the quality and efficiency of the design outcome. Today's interactive media technology provides more possibilities and advantages for designers' perception and sensation. The purpose of this research is to explore a way to stimulate the designer's senses through the use of interactive media, thereby improving the designer's design thinking and creativity, and providing designers with innovative design support. By means of interactive ground projection and experiments, and discussion of the advantages of interactive media to stimulate designers' senses, this research proposes innovations in art design educational media, which is valuable for the training and learning of designers and the development of virtual education environment in the future.
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Wortel, Elise. "From history to haecceity." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 2 (February 14, 2012): 60–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.2.05.
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This article investigates the transformation of history into haecceities that allow us to grasp history through a nonlinear, cinematic sensation of pure past. Here, cinema merges classical knowledge of historical facts with the lived reality of the unrecorded past. Experiments with spatial reframings of the past in The Lady and the Duke, The King's Daughters, The White Ribbon and Coco Before Chanel are discussed to create nonlinear sensations of duration that link with Deleuze and Guattari's notions of affect and haecceity, which transform history into cinematic sets of speed, movement, and texture. Furthermore, the article analyses how the traditionally linear narrative of history is transposed into the abstract sensation of time through haecceity as pure past, where time and space come together to put the sensory quality of memory to the fore. Shifting the perspective from the linear account of history to the multilinear effects of affect and haecceity this analysis challenges the cultural hegemony of representation that favours a homogeneous image of thought. Focussing on the material and performative quality of the film image, the article analyses the spatiotemporal relations that create an analytical perception through the senses.
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Vandierendonck, André, and Koen Van Der Goten. "Sensation of Resistor-Induced Warmth in Blind Persons." Perceptual and Motor Skills 78, no. 3 (June 1994): 727–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003151259407800309.
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It is commonly believed that the human sense of warmth is inferior in spatiotemporal acuity to the tactile senses. However, little or no evidence is available about the active feeling of warmth. We investigated the ability of people to detect in an active way small changes of warmth on very small areas (2-mm × 2-mm resistors). To that end, a new procedure was developed to measure perception of warmth. The results indicate that people who are able to detect the warmth stimuli perceive small incremental changes and that detection performance improves as stimulus intensity increases. Male subjects seem to be less sensitive than female subjects at lower levels of stimulation, but this relationship is reversed at higher levels of stimulation.
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Latuny, Marsiano Rocky, and Handry Rochmad Dwi Happy. "Synesthesia and the Experience of the Art of Photography." Jurnal Desain Komunikasi Visual Asia 7, no. 01 (February 28, 2023): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32815/jeskovsia.v7i01.913.
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Photography is one branch of a large grouping in the arts, apart from design and painting. As a field of art, photography certainly has its own aesthetic concept, even the aesthetic concept is closely related to "feeling", an abstract concept regarding the process of absorbing something in human beings that cannot even be fully described. Understanding the concept of aesthetics is a dialectical process related to other issues such as philosophy, social, politics, culture, and economics so that the values of goodness and truth often appear in a variety of aesthetic discussions. The development of an approach to the concept of the creation process that involves the audience and seeks to provide various stimuli for the five senses requires the ability to process other senses, namely connecting the five senses. The concept related to this is known as synaesthesia (synesthesia), a concept where the five senses work together at the same time when responding to a stimulus so that it will cause a sensation that exceeds the expression of one of the five senses. Understanding aesthetics with these various approaches is an active appreciation process that aims to uncover new discourse possibilities in the development of photography.
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Lee, Sanghak, Kitae Kim, Yong J. Hyun, and Byungho Park. "From Sensation to Emotion: A Neuromarketing Study of Sport Sponsorship Effects." Sport Marketing Quarterly 33, no. 2 (June 2024): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.32731/smq.2024.a929608.
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Abstract: This study investigated the sport sponsorship effects by applying the traditional response hierarchy models. Measured by a neuromarketing technique (i.e., electroencephalogram [EEG]), the study analyzed how sport fans' sensation and emotion influence sponsorship effects. The Korea Republic National Football Team's A match videos were shown as experiment stimuli to manipulate participants' arousal and emotion in the experiment. Based on alpha blocking and hemispheric laterality theories, the current study found that alpha blocking occurred when participants were exposed to sensational senses (e.g., scoring goals) and that left frontal alpha dominance (LFAD) was reported when participants watched their supporting team's winning games and had positive emotions. However, alpha blocking by brand recall and LFAD by brand attitude were insignificant. These findings support the use of neuromarketing and traditional response hierarchy models in understanding the effects of sport sponsorship. Managerial implications and study limitations will be discussed.
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Smith, Roger. "“The Sixth Sense”: Towards a History of Muscular Sensation." Gesnerus 68, no. 2 (November 11, 2011): 218–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22977953-06802004.
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This paper outlines the history of knowledge about the muscular sense and provides a bibliographic resource for further research. A range of different topics, questions and approaches have interrelated throughout this history, and the discussion clarifies this rather than presenting detailed research in any one area. P art I relates the origin of belief in a muscular sense to empiricist accounts of the contribution of the senses to knowledge from Locke, via the idéologues and other authors, to the second half of the nineteenth century. Analysis paid much attention to touch, first in the context of the theory of vision and then in its own right, which led to naming a distinct muscular sense. From 1800 to the present, there was much debate, the main lines of which this paper introduces, about the nature and function of what turned out to be a complex sense. A number of influential psycho-physiologists, notably Alexander Bain and Herbert Spencer, thought this sense the most primitive and primary of all, the origin of knowledge of world, causation and self as an active subject. Part II relates accounts of the muscular sense to the development of nervous physiology and of psychology. In the decades before 1900, t he developing separation of philosophy, psychology and physiology as specialised disciplines divided up questions which earlier writers had discussed under the umbrella heading of muscular sensation. The term ‘kinaesthesia’ came in 1880 and ‘proprio-ception’ in 1906. There was, all the same, a lasting interest in the argument that touch and muscular sensation are intrinsic to the existence of embodied being in the way the other senses are not. In the wider culture – the arts, sport, the psychophysiology of labour and so on – there were many ways in which people expressed appreciation of the importance of what the anatomist Charles Bell had called ‘the sixth sense’.
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Story, Gina M., and Robert W. Gereau. "Numbing the Senses: Role of TRPA1 in Mechanical and Cold Sensation." Neuron 50, no. 2 (April 2006): 177–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.009.
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Okumura, Takumi, and Yuichi Kurita. "Cross-Modal Effect of Presenting Visual and Force Feedback That Create the Illusion of Stair-Climbing." Applied Sciences 11, no. 7 (March 26, 2021): 2987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11072987.
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Image therapy, which creates illusions with a mirror and a head mount display, assists movement relearning in stroke patients. Mirror therapy presents the movement of the unaffected limb in a mirror, creating the illusion of movement of the affected limb. As the visual information of images cannot create a fully immersive experience, we propose a cross-modal strategy that supplements the image with sensual information. By interacting with the stimuli received from multiple sensory organs, the brain complements missing senses, and the patient experiences a different sense of motion. Our system generates the sense of stair-climbing in a subject walking on a level floor. The force sensation is presented by a pneumatic gel muscle (PGM). Based on motion analysis in a human lower-limb model and the characteristics of the force exerted by the PGM, we set the appropriate air pressure of the PGM. The effectiveness of the proposed system was evaluated by surface electromyography and a questionnaire. The experimental results showed that by synchronizing the force sensation with visual information, we could match the motor and perceived sensations at the muscle-activity level, enhancing the sense of stair-climbing. The experimental results showed that the visual condition significantly improved the illusion intensity during stair-climbing.
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Lin, Jingjing. "“Blossoming” Under a Glass: Interpreting the Sensory Depiction of Elizabeth Bishop’s “Poetic Map” from the Humanist-geographical Perspective." BCP Education & Psychology 10 (August 16, 2023): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpep.v10i.5205.
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is arguably one of the most outstanding American poets in the 20th century, with a fetish about maps and landscapes as her as poetica. In her literary mapping of the poetic landscapes, a clever operation of human sensorium is notable. To examine the specific roles senses, play in the construction of Bishop’s “poetic map”, this article analyzes the depiction of three couples of senses—sight and hearing, movement and touch, smell and taste—in six of Elizabeth Bishop’s representative poems under the framework of Yi-fu Tuan’s humanist geography. By interpreting in the three main sections the metaphorical relationships between maps and different senses, it penetrates into the natural, spatial, and humanistic attributes of Bishop’s “poetic map”, and finds out that while feeling about geographic scenery with her outer senses, Bishop contemplates in her inner sensation in a humanistic way, and keeps questioning human being’s meaning in the environment. Based on these analyses, this paper adds a sensory perspective into the spatial/geographical study on Elizabeth Bishop, and tries to respond to the topic of man-environment relationship in the nature writing in contemporary literature.
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Culbertson, Heather, Samuel B. Schorr, and Allison M. Okamura. "Haptics: The Present and Future of Artificial Touch Sensation." Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 1, no. 1 (May 28, 2018): 385–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-060117-105043.
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This article reviews the technology behind creating artificial touch sensations and the relevant aspects of human touch. We focus on the design and control of haptic devices and discuss the best practices for generating distinct and effective touch sensations. Artificial haptic sensations can present information to users, help them complete a task, augment or replace the other senses, and add immersiveness and realism to virtual interactions. We examine these applications in the context of different haptic feedback modalities and the forms that haptic devices can take. We discuss the prior work, limitations, and design considerations of each feedback modality and individual haptic technology. We also address the need to consider the neuroscience and perception behind the human sense of touch in the design and control of haptic devices.
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Kearney, Richard. "Philosophies of Touch: from Aristotle to Phenomenology." Research in Phenomenology 50, no. 3 (October 14, 2020): 300–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341453.
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Abstract This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the senses. It analyses his central insight in the De Anima that tactile flesh is a “medium not an organ,” unpacking both its metaphysical and ethical implications. The essay concludes with a discussion of how contemporary phenomenology—from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray—re-describes Aristotle’s seminal intuition regarding the model of “double reversible sensation.”
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Chatrian, Gian-Emilio, Mitchel S. Berger, and Adelina L. Wirch. "Discrepancy between intraoperative SSEP's and postoperative function." Journal of Neurosurgery 69, no. 3 (September 1988): 450–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/jns.1988.69.3.0450.
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✓ The authors report a case in which midline myelotomy for the removal of a C4–T4 ependymoma was immediately followed by abolition of short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP's) in response to bilateral posterior tibial nerve (PTN) stimulation which proved irreversible intraoperatively. Subsequent intraoperative testing also revealed obliteration of median nerve (MN)-elicited responses. Postoperatively, joint and vibration sensations deteriorated in the lower extremities and there was unchanged very mild impairment of light touch, pinprick, and temperature sensibilities without significant loss of muscle strength. Nearly 5 months after surgery, despite recovery of postural and vibratory senses in the lower limbs and of SSEP's in response to MN stimulation, no SSEP's could be demonstrated on PTN stimulation. The possibility of “false positive” results (that is, intraoperative SSEP abolition without postoperative motor deficits) and of dissociations between SSEP's and deep sensation should be taken into consideration when interpreting SSEP's intraoperatively.
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Kobayashi, S. "The five senses and fiber.2.Material feeling sensation and its measurement." Sen'i Kikai Gakkaishi (Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan) 44, no. 9 (1991): P403—P409. http://dx.doi.org/10.4188/transjtmsj.44.9_p403.
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Rodriguez, Raul, and Benjamin T. Crane. "Effect of timing delay between visual and vestibular stimuli on heading perception." Journal of Neurophysiology 126, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 304–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00351.2020.
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The effect of timing on visual-inertial integration on heading perception has not been previously examined. This study finds that visual headings influence inertial heading perception when timing differences are within 250 ms. This suggests visual-inertial stimuli can be integrated over a wider range than reported for visual-auditory integration and may be due to the unique nature of inertial sensation, which can only sense acceleration while the visual system senses position but encodes velocity.
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Stillman, Jennifer A. "Gustation: Intersensory Experience Par Excellence." Perception 31, no. 12 (December 2002): 1491–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p3284.
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On the face of it, basic tactile sensation might seem the only essential sensory requirement for the delivery of foods and beverages to the digestive system. In practice, however, the appropriate delivery of raw materials for the maintenance and repair of the body requires complex sensory and cognitive processes, such that flavour sensation arguably constitutes the pre-eminent example of an integrated multicomponent perceptual experience. To raise the profile of the chemical senses amongst researchers in other perceptual domains, I review here the contribution of various sense modalities to the flavour of foods and beverages. Further, in the light of these multisensory inputs, the physiological and psychophysical research summarised in this paper invites optimism that novel ways will be found to intervene when nutritional status is compromised either by specific dietary restraints, or by taste and smell disorders.
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Sokouti, Babak, and Siamak Haghipour. "PAIN MANAGEMENT BASED ON SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN SYSTEM RESPONSE IDENTIFICATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS." Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications 26, no. 03 (March 17, 2014): 1450034. http://dx.doi.org/10.4015/s1016237214500343.
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Pain, depending on its severity, is an uncomfortable and individual sensation for sending a signal being sensed by brain about body harms. The spinal cord and nerves provide the pathway for these messages to travel to and from the brain and other parts of the body. Although most of the patients such as cancerous patients may have pain for a variety of reasons, there is still no common way of controlling the pain. Pain identification mechanisms in the nerve system and modeling its artificial neural network (i.e. ANN) system is required to access the best way of clinical cure. Up to now, no practical model has been presented that is capable of identifying the dorsal horn of spinal cord response modes, memory role and regulating other senses' effects on these modes. In this paper, by using the bifurcation methodology and nonlinear dynamic behavior feature extraction of the pain data transmission system along with its supporting clinical database, an ANN model is presented which is able to identify the dorsal horn of spinal cord neuron responses, memory role, other senses' input effect and descending input effects from the high level of the nervous system. The results showed that the ANN model can accurately follow the clinical data based on electrical and thermal stimulations. Moreover, the ANN model simulates pain management while using both electrical and thermal stimulations. In conclusion, it is deduced that the proposed ANN model is efficient in pain management of severe painful patients.
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Ross, R. T. "Dissociated Loss of Vibration, Joint Position and Discriminatory Tactile Senses in Disease of Spinal Cord and Brain." Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques 18, no. 3 (August 1991): 312–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100031875.
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ABSTRACT:The clinical functions of the posterior columns of the spinal cord and the signs of disease of these structures have been debated for years. Todd in 1847 and Schiff in 1858 knew the functions of the posterior columns and 10 years later Brown-Sequard knew as well. Reynolds, Romberg, and Duchenne, each described a posterior column syndrome based on a disease in which the primary lesion was not in the posterior columns. In the last 150 years almost every white matter structure of the cord has been credited with serving the sensations that we now know are a function of the posterior columns. Vibration, joint position and movement as well as discriminatory touch each seem to be served by separate fibres of the posterior columns and medial lemniscus. There is evidence of this in cat and man. These sensations may be lost individually, totally, or in certain stereotyped combinations. Vibration or joint sense is commonly lost alone. When a discriminatory touch sensation is lost with one other sense, it is almost inevitably joint position sense. Absent discriminatory touch and vibration sense with normal joint position sense appears to be unknown. This functional separation continues into the thalamus. At the highest level there is no evidence that vibration sense has any conscious somatosensory cortical affiliation, while joint position and discriminatory touch senses definitely do.
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Betbeze, Anna. "Touching Feeling Transmission." TDR: The Drama Review 65, no. 1 (March 2021): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1054204320000027.
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Touch Workshop is a multimodal set of experiments that untangle the ideological orientation of the senses, organized around proprioceptive sensation and arriving at inverted performances. The project builds on the tactile research of Czech polymath Jan Švankmajer, his response to the censorship of his work in the 1970s. With Covid-19 a pervasive reality, touch is limited and vision dominates. How can the tactile imagination respond in the absence of tactile freedom? How do we transfer and transmit feeling, touching those outside of our time-space?
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Wu, Chunsheng, Ya-Wen Du, Liquan Huang, Yaron Ben-Shoshan Galeczki, Ayana Dagan-Wiener, Michael Naim, Masha Niv, and Ping Wang. "Biomimetic Sensors for the Senses: Towards Better Understanding of Taste and Odor Sensation." Sensors 17, no. 12 (December 11, 2017): 2881. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17122881.
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Balode, Linda. "THE HEALING GARDENS AND PARKS OF SENSES." Latgale National Economy Research 1, no. 5 (October 21, 2013): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/lner2013vol1.5.1148.
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Health gardens therapy is a relatively new discipline of landscape science of which many fields of research are still undiscovered. While researching the international scientific literature the more underlying theories of the health gardens need to be considered as well. In Latvia the development of senses gardens has not been enough explored. Purpose: Based on the international sensation, treatment and therapy garden studies establish perspectives for sustainable development of therapy gardens in Latvia. Materials and Methods: Summarize literature on the impact of the Latvian rehabilitation centre and medical treatment worldwide on people as well as to study information used in the Latvian statistical data bases, historical papers, scientific research literature, publications, documents, and electronic resources analysis. To explore health and rehabilitation garden sustainable development and to create new opportunities to improve their residents’ mental health. Such garden visits not only develop feelings and senses of a small child or a teenage, but also enable residents of any age with various disabilities to spend their free time interactively. Perhaps such gardens make it possible to build self-confidence in people and underpin their social inclusion.
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Lua Coello, Jacqueline, Andrea Peñafiel Luna, Gerardo Fernández Soto, and Franklin Cashabamba Padilla. "Sensory stimulation of taste and smell in older adults: a literature review." Sapienza: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 4, SI1 (September 30, 2023): e23045. http://dx.doi.org/10.51798/sijis.v4isi1.706.
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The sensory stimulation of smell and taste are very important. Now is the time to pay more attention to it, since its correct functionality is essential for life, health and safety of people, especially in old age. At this stage, is when these senses are deteriorating, possibly due to decreased production of receptor cells. Therefore, the objective of this article is to identify existing methods for sensory stimulation, physiology and evaluation of the chemo-sensory senses: taste, smell and everything that contributes to the knowledge, approach and intervention of these senses. Documentary design was applied, with reference review in databases such as: MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, Springer, Elsevier, EBSCO and Google Scholar. Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) were used: Aged, Taste perception, Sense of Smell, Sensation. The search included the languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish. The references have been published in the last 6 years. That is, from 2017 to 2022, 30 articles were included since they met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results obtained were: identification of physiology, evaluation methods, diagnosis, and stimulation. They have been implemented and have been shown to be suitable for exploring, analyzing and improving functionality. In conclusion, diagnostic tests and sensory stimulation methods are suitable for application in elderly people.
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Seemungal, Barry M. "The Components of Vestibular Cognition — Motion Versus Spatial Perception." Multisensory Research 28, no. 5-6 (2015): 507–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134808-00002507.
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Vestibular cognition can be divided into two main functions — a primary vestibular sensation of self-motion and a derived sensation of spatial orientation. Although the vestibular system requires calibration from other senses for optimal functioning, both vestibular spatial and vestibular motion perception are typically employed when navigating without vision. A recent important finding is the cerebellar mediation of the uncoupling of reflex (i.e., the vestibular-ocular reflex) from vestibular motion perception (Perceptuo-Reflex Uncoupling). The brain regions that mediate vestibular motion and vestibular spatial perception is an area of on-going research activity. However, there is data to support the notion that vestibular motion perception is mediated by multiple brain regions. In contrast, vestibular spatial perception appears to be mediated by posterior brain areas although currently the exact locus is unclear. I will discuss the experimental evidence that support this functional dichotomy in vestibular cognition (i.e., motion processingvs.spatial orientation). Along the way I will highlight relevant practical technical tips in testing vestibular cognition.
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Zepke, Stephen. "The Sublime Conditions of Contemporary Art." Deleuze Studies 5, no. 1 (March 2011): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2011.0008.
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Deleuze's relationship to Kant is intricate and fundamental, given that Deleuze develops his transcendental philosophy of difference in large part out of Kant's work. In doing so he utilises the moment of the sublime from the third Critique as the genetic model for the irruption of the faculties beyond their capture within common sense. In this sense, the sublime offers the model not only for transcendental genesis but also for aesthetic experience unleashed from any conditions of possibility. As a result, sensation in both its wider and more specifically artistic senses (senses that become increasingly entwined in Deleuze's work) will explode the clichés of human perception, and continually reinvent the history of art without recourse to representation. In tracing Deleuze's ‘aesthetics’ from Kant we are therefore returned to the viciously anti-human (and Nietzschean) trajectory of Deleuze's work, while simultaneously being forced to address the extent of its remaining Idealism. Both of these elements play an important part in relation to Deleuze's ‘modernism’, and to the discussion of his possible relevance to contemporary artistic practices.
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RENERO, ADRIANA. "NOUS AND AISTHĒSIS: TWO COGNITIVE FACULTIES IN ARISTOTLE." Méthexis 26, no. 1 (March 30, 2013): 103–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680974-90000616.
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In disagreement with Claudia Baracchi's controversial thesis that there is a 'simultaneity and indissolubility' if not an 'identity' of intelligence (nous) and perception (aisthēsis) at the core of Aristotle's philosophy, I will argue that Aristotle maintains a fundamental distinction between these cognitive faculties. My goal in this paper is to examine specific parts of two central and complex passages, VI.8, 1142al2-30 and VI. 11, 1143a33-bl5, from the Nicomachean Ethics to show that Baracchi's view is unpersuasive. I will show that Aristotle considers nous to be a different capacity than mere perception and one through which particulars and indemonstrable principles become intelligible. Moreover, I will show that Aristotle considers that the objects of nous differ in kind from those that sensation (our senses) and perception (inference from our senses) grasp. After examining critically Baracchi's thesis in light of a close reading of those two relevant passages, I will conclude the paper by showing the significance of Aristotle's claim that a state is defined in terms of its objects of apprehension for understanding the distinction between nous and aisthēsis.
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Heider, Daniel. "The Notitia Intuitiva and Notitia Abstractiva of the External Senses in Second Scholasticism: Suárez, Poinsot and Francisco de Oviedo." Vivarium 54, no. 2-3 (August 19, 2016): 173–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341321.
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This paper analyzes the theories of three representatives of Second Scholasticism, namely Francisco Suárez, sj, John Poinsot, op, and Francisco de Oviedo, sj, on the issue of the intuitive and abstractive cognition of the external senses. Based on a comparison of their theories, linked to the historical starting point of the debate in the first decades of the fourteenth century (Peter Auriol, John Duns Scotus, Francis of Meyronnes, William of Ockham and Walter Chatton), the paper argues that the doctrinal and argumentative matrix of these authors’ texts is significantly ‘present’ in the Second Scholastics as well. 1) As far as naturally produced sensation is concerned, all these authors, including Poinsot, follow the Scotistic justification of the natural infallibility of the external senses; 2) regarding the possibility of supernaturally caused objectless perception, Poinsot’s position can be labelled, surprisingly, Scotistic; 3) Suárez’s theory, although partly similar to the doctrine of the late Ockham, is an idiosyncratic stance; 4) Oviedo’s conception, even more distant from that of Ockham, can be characterized as ‘Auriolian’ and ‘Chattonian’.
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Hingston, Kylee-Anne. "“SKINS TO JUMP INTO”: THE SLIPPERINESS OF IDENTITY AND THE BODY IN WILKIE COLLINS'S NO NAME." Victorian Literature and Culture 40, no. 1 (March 2012): 117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150311000271.
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Victorian sensation literature was inextricably related to identity and the body: its primary purposes were to elicit a physical response from the senses of readers and to question “the social formation of the self” (Taylor, The Secret 2). Sensation fiction regularly relied on different, deformed, or diseased bodies to provoke fear or unease in its readers, and it created anxiety by juxtaposing the domestic with scandal, crime, and Gothicism to disturb the perceived stability of the home and social identity. Lyn Pykett argues that the genre reproduces the “real mid-nineteenth-century anxiety” that domestic selfhood “could be disrupted by danger, death or disease on the one hand, and the vagaries of the law, the banking system or the stockmarket on the other” (“Collins” 59). Nineteenth-century critics’ reactions to sensation novels connected anxieties about the body to fears about the instability of social identity: contemporary reviews described sensation literature and its works as “feverish” (Smith 141), “a collective cultural nervous disorder” (Taylor, The Secret 4), and as “symptoms of . . . social disease” (Pykett, “Collins” 51). In his 1880–81 series of essays, “Fiction Fair and Foul,” John Ruskin argues that the “[p]hysically diseased, ‘deformed,’ and ignobly dead bodies [in Collins's and Dickens's novels] are symptomatic of diseased and deformed genres, produced by morally and physically ill writers to cater to the tastes of morally and physically diseased urban readers” (Holmes, Fictions 92). These extreme critical responses, as well as the extreme popularity of sensation fiction, call attention to Victorian preoccupation with the body and social identity and with the instability of both. This paper, through analyzing the instability of bodies and identities in Wilkie Collins's sensation novel No Name (1862) and its serial context, challenges readings by both Victorian and more recent critics that distinctly interpret diseased and disabled bodies in the novel as either symbolic of or a result of social deviance.
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Howes, David. "Quali(a)tative Methods: Sense-Based Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities." Qualitative Sociology Review 18, no. 4 (October 31, 2022): 18–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.18.4.02.
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This paper begins by tracing the sensory turn in the human sciences—most notably, history and anthropology—which, in turn, gave rise to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies. The latter field is articulated around the concept of the sensorium (defined as the entire sensory apparatus, including the extension of the senses via diverse media, as an operational complex) and the notion of qualia (defined as those aspects of the material world, such as color and sound, that are contingent on the human perceptual apparatus—in contrast to the inherent or elementary properties of materials, such as number or form, which are not).
Sense-based research in the human sciences is tied to sensing and making sense together with others. Its methodology of choice is sensory ethnography, or “participant sensation.” This method departs from the emphasis on observation in conventional qualitative research, as well as the latter’s reliance on such verbocentric methods as the questionnaire or focus group. Sensory ethnography highlights the primacy of the quali(a)tative dimensions of our being together in society. It extrapolates on Georg Simmel’s point: “That we get involved in interactions at all depends on the fact that we have a sensory effect upon one another” (as cited in Howes 2013).
In part II of this paper, a critique is presented of the diminution of the quali(a)tative in the context of the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the cognitive revolution of the mid-twentieth century, and the scientization of the senses in the Sensory Evaluation Research Laboratory. These revolutions are problematized for their lopsidedness: the privileging of the infrasensible over the sensible and elemental (or atomistic) over the phenomenal in the case of the Scientific Revolution; the neuronal over the sensual and social in the case of the cognitive revolution; and, the unimodal (or one-sensation- and one-sense-at-a-time) over the multimodal, as well as the reduction of “significance” to the statistical, in the case of the research protocols of the sensory science laboratory. The paper concludes by presenting the results of a series of case studies in sensory ethnography that push the bounds of sense by leading with the senses and bringing the quali(a)tative back in.
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Geary, Paul. "An-aesthetic: Performed philosophies of sensation, confusion, and intoxication." Performance Philosophy 5, no. 2 (February 24, 2020): 293–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.21476/pp.2020.52282.
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In Michel Serres’ The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies, he establishes an opposition between two mouths: the anaesthetising, speaking mouth of discourse and analysis and the aesthetic, tasting mouth of sensation. This article uses Serres’ model of the two mouths to think about the performance of knowledge and philosophy in a sensory performance event and the potential of intoxication to unveil or reveal through a process of ‘making strange’. The article begins with an outline and reading of Serres, considering his writing on the two mouths and their indicative models of knowledge, before moving to think about philosophies of confluence or confusion; the pouring or flowing together of different forms of knowing. This is coupled with outlining two modes of intoxication (losing oneself into the status quo and a process of estrangement) to think about the politics of aesthetic sensory experience in the age of commodification of live(d) experience. The second half of the article turns to a dining-performance event by Kaye Winwood entitled After Dark (2016). The event is used as a basis for more personal reflections, considering the ways intoxication makes strange and enters into performance as a revelatory experience. The article proposes a number of interconnected arguments: that sensory experience and embodiment offer a mode of knowledge; that intoxication as ‘making strange’ has potential as a philosophical gesture; and that in that estrangement, there is potential to resist the coopting of live(d) or sensory experience in an economy of commodification.
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Jaffe, Rivke, Eveline Dürr, Gareth A. Jones, Alessandro Angelini, Alana Osbourne, and Barbara Vodopivec. "What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation." Urban Studies 57, no. 5 (March 19, 2019): 1015–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018820177.
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The emergent field of ‘sensory urbanism’ studies how socio-spatial boundaries are policed through sensorial means. Such studies have tended to focus on either formal policies that seek to control territories and populations through a governance of the senses, or on more everyday micro-politics of exclusion where conflicts are articulated in a sensory form. This article seeks to extend this work by concentrating on contexts where people deliberately seek out sensory experiences that disturb their own physical sense of comfort and belonging. While engagement across lines of sensorial difference may often be antagonistic, we argue for a more nuanced exploration of sense disruption that attends to the complex political potential of sensory urbanism. Specifically, we focus on the politics of sensation in tours of low-income urban areas. Tourists enter these areas to immerse themselves in a different environment, to be moved by urban deprivation and to feel its affective force. What embodied experiences do tourists and residents associate with urban poverty? How do guides mobilise these sensations in tourism encounters, and what is their potential to disrupt established hierarchies of socio-spatial value? Drawing on a collaborative research project in Kingston, Mexico City, New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro, the article explores how tours offer tourists a sense of what poverty feels like. Experiencing these neighbourhoods in an intimate, embodied fashion often allows tourists to feel empathy and solidarity, yet these feelings are balanced by a sense of discomfort and distance, reminding tourists in a visceral way that they do not belong.