著者
中野 良樹 畑山 俊輝 菊池 晶夫
出版者
JAPAN SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTIONS
雑誌
感情心理学研究 (ISSN:18828817)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.4, no.2, pp.44-54, 1997-03-30 (Released:2009-04-07)
参考文献数
29
被引用文献数
1

This study examined effects of hedonic tones produced by odor stimuli on human mental performance. Thirty subjects were equally assigned to one of three olfactory stimulus groups: a control group with blank air, a Rose and a Ylang-ylang scented air group. From a preliminary study, we selected the latter as an unpleasant odor stimulus. The subjects of a different group received a different olfactory stimulus into a their nostril while they performed an audio-visual dual task. In this task the subjects were required to discriminate the difference in duration of a tone stimulus and to press a right hand key when they found the tone shorter. Engaging in this performance they had to attend to a red light rested in front of them and to press a left hand key when the light was turned off. For this visual performance the subjects of the Ylangylang group improved the detection of the signals in the first odor block. For the auditory performance, however, they made more errors than those of other groups. These results suggested that whiffs of an unpleasant odor would enhance detectability of the visual signal, but inhibit cognitive processes associated with discrimination in the dual task performance.
著者
中野 良樹 伊藤 由美
出版者
JAPAN SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTIONS
雑誌
感情心理学研究 (ISSN:18828817)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, no.3, pp.195-208, 2009
被引用文献数
2 1

Human communication of emotions is achieved through both facial and vocal information. The purpose of this study is to investigate the dominant sensory modality in recognition of emotions to the multi-modal expression. In Experiment 1, expressions of happiness, surprise, sadness, or aversion was presented vocally, facially, or in both modalities through the expression of an interjectory word "eh". Participants were required to judge the emotion that was expressed. In Experiment 2, recognition of conflicted emotions between modalities was investigated by combining different emotions between facial and vocal expression. Results of the two experiments indicated that the observers predominantly recognized happiness and surprise that was expressed facially rather than vocally. Furthermore, the expression of happiness was often mistaken as surprise, and the expression of sadness was often mistaken as aversion. Importantly, however, the reverse of these mistakes was little observed. Such the asymmetries of confusion were consistently obtained in every modality including bimodal presentations. This evidence is suggestive that an amodal processing system exists in multi-modal recognition of emotions.
著者
森田 紗也子 中野 良樹
出版者
秋田大学
雑誌
秋田大学教育文化学部研究紀要. 人文科学・社会科学 (ISSN:1348527X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.68, pp.9-16, 2013-03-31

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the familiarity of a face affects on recognition of emotion which expressed by face and voice. In the experiment, participants observed a video image of one woman who has selected among four women, the two were known for the participant and the others were not. The woman expressed one of four emotion, happiness, surprise, sad and disgust, via face and voice. In these stimuli half of them expressed the same emotion from the face and the voice, while the other half expressed the different emotion between the two modalities. The observers were required to assess how much they felt the four emotions from the expression of that woman. Results suggested that the participant predominantly recognized surprise and disgust that were typical expression among the four emotions when they observed a familiar woman. Furthermore, the familiarity let an observer to proceed information and predominant modality, when the participants recognized happiness and sadness that were involved surprise and disgust respectively.