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O'Connell, Erin K. "Senses of Place." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276954023.
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Irizarry, Yoeldi B. "Sensorium: The Sum of Perception." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88514.
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We live in a world full of stimuli. We can see, smell, feel, taste and hear because stimuli surrounds us. However, when we are conceived in the womb of our mothers we are formed with no senses. During that time we are totally isolated from our environment. Interestingly enough senses start to develop only after 8 weeks of fetal development, being touch the first one to mature. Smell, taste, hearing and sight appear later on. Humans connect to their surroundings through senses, and as these senses start developing in our bodies our brain starts applying them to perceive our environment.
Through our senses we are able to interact with our environment and we are able to learn, pass on knowledge, and form, create and treasure memories. It is because of our senses that we can enjoy the beautiful colors of autumn, the balmy breeze of late summer days, or the avian symphony of spring. Each sense is like a link through which we connect our inner self with the outside world and allows us to uniquely experience each setting. However, when one or more of the senses is missing, those links are broken and the outside world is perceived very differently from individual to individual. Experiencing the built environment is no different. Since buildings are usually designed with a fully sensory individual in mind sensory-impaired populations typically find it difficult to navigate or make use of the spaces the building offers.
The following pages of this thesis demonstrate the universal access system as a tool for those who lack one or more of the senses in order for them to fully enjoy and use the spaces in the same way any fully sensorial person can. Another important aspect which is explored architectonically is the aspect of social inequalities, which many handicapped individuals face on regular basis as users of a building.MARCH
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Maule, John. "Ensemble perception of hue." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61471/.
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In order to rapidly get the gist of new scenes or recognise objects, the brain must have mechanisms to process the large amount of visual information which enters the eye. Previous research has shown that observers tend to extract the average feature from briefly seen sets of multiple stimuli that vary along a dimension (e.g., size), a phenomenon called ensemble perception. This thesis investigates ensemble perception of hue. Paper 1 (Maule, Witzel & Franklin, 2014) demonstrates that human observers have memories biased towards the mean hue of a rapidly-presented ensemble of colours. Paper 2 (Maule & Franklin, 2015) further shows that observers are able to identify the mean hue from a distractor fairly reliably, provided the range of hues is manageable. Paper 3 provides evidence that, while observers' settings of the mean hue converge quite closely on the true mean across many trials, the precision of those settings is low and does not support claims that ensemble perception can surpass the limits of visual working memory. Paper 4 found that adults with autism have an enhanced ability to discriminate members from non-members of multi-hue ensembles, and a similar ability to extract the mean hue compared to typical adults, but are worse at averaging small sets. Finally, paper 5 investigated colour afterimages in adults with autism and whether they are affected by top-down gist of a scene. It was found that afterimages were no different in autism compared to a typical group. Overall these studies provide the first comprehensive exploration of ensemble perception of hue, showing that observers can extract and estimate the mean hue of a rapidly-presented multi-colour ensemble with a small hue variance. The ability to average hue may be driven by a sub-sampling mechanism, but results from autistic adults suggests that it can be modulated by processing style.
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Chan, Chung Man. "Sex pheromone in caenorhabditis : its production and perception /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?BIOL%202007%20CHANC.
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Van, Jaarsveld Karien. "The effect of the senses on the perception of a brand." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4130.
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Thesis (MComm (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Against the background of the challenge marketers face in influencing consumer perceptions of brands, this study attempts to assess the effect of the senses on the perception of a brand. Perception is the way in which consumers interpret the world around them, with the senses as the receptors of information from the environment. One way of influencing consumer perceptions is by stimulating or involving multiple senses in brand building. To test this statement, the following research question was drawn: ‘Do the senses affect the perception of a brand?’The empirical study was one of an experimental nature, and a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design was used to assess the effect of the senses on the perception of a brand. In order to focus the research and to provide information to a leading distributor of alcohol spirits in South Africa, it was decided to concentrate on alcohol, more specifically, brandy. Due to the nature of the selected brand, sensory properties in relation to the product were used to measure the effect of the senses on brand perception. The nature of the brand is a consumable, and taste was used as the dependant variable to measure perceptions. The stimulated senses in the experiment are sight, sound and smell. The stimuli were: sight with the visible brandy colour, sound in the form of brandy being poured into a glass and smell as an enhanced honey aroma. Several experiments were conducted in a sensory laboratory, which assessed the effect of the senses on the perception of a brand, by way of individual main effects, two-way interactions and a three-way interaction. A convenience sample of 240 alcohol spirit consumers, from the Western Cape, was used to conduct the experiment. The empirical results indicated that the three independent variables (individual main effects or two-way interactions) did not have significant effects on perception. Most importantly, it was found that the three-way interaction of sight, sound and smell did have a significant effect on the perception of a brand. Therefore, this study revealed that multiple stimulated senses affect the perception of a brand.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie handel oor die effek van sintuie op persepsie van ’n handelsmerk, teen die agtergrond van die bemarkings uitdaging wat bemarkers teenstaan om verbruikers se persepsie van handelsmerke te beinvloed. Persepsie is die manier waarop verbruikers die wêreld interpreteer, met die sintuie as ontvangers van inligting vanuit die omgewing. Een manier waarop persepsies beinvloed kan word, is deur die stimulering en betrekking van ‘n meerderheid van sintuie met die bou van handelsmerke. Om hierdie stelling te toets is die volgende navorsingsvraag gestel: ‘Beinvloed die sintuie die perspesie van ‘n handelsmerk?’Die empiriese studie was eksperimenteel van aard, en ‘n 2 x 2 x 2 faktoriese ontwerp is gebruik om te bepaal wat die effek van die sintuie op ‘n handelsmerk persepsie is. Om inligting aan ‘n verspreider, wat ‘n markleier van alkohol spirietes in Suid-Afrika is, te verskaf, is daar besluit om op alkohol, en meer spesifiek, brandewyn te fokus. Weens die aard van die gekose handelsmerk is sensoriese eienskappe in verband met die produk gebruik om die effek van die sintuie op die handelsmerk te bepaal. Die produk is ‘n verbruikbare produk, en smaak is as die onveranderlike gebruik om persepsie te meet. Die gestimuleerde sintuie in die eksperiment was sig, klank en reuk. Die stimuli was: • sig met die sigbaarheid van die brandewyn kleur, • klank in die vorm van ‘n brandewyn wat geskink word en • reuk as ‘n beklemtoonde heuningreuk. Verskeie eksperimente is uitgevoer in ‘n sensoriese laborotorium om te bepaal wat die effek van die sintuie op die persepsie van ‘n handelsmerk is. ‘n Geriefliksheidsteekproefmetode van 240 verbruikers, van die Wes Kaap, was gebruik om die eksperiment uit te voer. Hierdie respondente was almal alkohol verbruikers wat ook spirietes gebruik. Die empiriese resultate het getoon dat die drie veranderlikes (individuele hoof effekte of tweerigting interaksies) geen beduidende effek op persepsie gehad het nie. Die belangrikste bevinding was die dat die drierigting interaksie van sig, klank en reuk wel ‘n beduidende effek op die persepsie van ‘n handelsmerk gehad het. Die studie het getoon dat, dus veelvoudige gestimuleerde sintuie die persepsie van ‘n handelsmerk beinvloed.
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Wojno, Alexandra. "Senses of Darkness: An Exploration of Blind Navigation Through Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52628.
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Based on the principle of sequential lessons for teaching orienteering, the program is a center that teaches navigation to people who are blind, located in the remains of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Through the use of materials, light, and this program of sequential patterns, the architecture focuses on heightening the working senses of the occupants using the progression throughout the building. This connection of the body and mind to architecture creates an awareness of space, unifying a perception of place, while bridging the old life to the new.Master of Architecture
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Kobue-Lekalake, Rosemary Ikalafeng. "Sensory perception of bitterness and astringency in sorghum." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01152009-175536.
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Mota, Rui Manuel Nunes. "Designing for the senses through food design and psychophysiology." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17971.
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Tavassoli, Teresa. "Sensory perception in autism spectrum conditions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610035.
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So, Wai Kar. "Sex pheromone in caenorhabditis : defining its identity and its perception pathway /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?AMCE%202006%20SO.
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Nanda, Upali. "Sensthetics: a crossmodal approach to the perception, and conception, of our environments." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3215.
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This dissertation counters the visual bias, and the simplistic approach to the
senses, in architectural thought, by investigating the connections among different sense
modalities (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch). Literature from the cognitive sciences
shows that sensory modalities are connected perceptually; what we see affects what we
hear, what we smell affects what we taste, and so on. This has a direct impact on the
perceptual choices we make in our day-to-day lives.
A case study conducted in an urban plaza investigates the perceptual choices
people make (or what they attend to) as they explore their physical environment.
Results show that people construct subjective and embodied mental maps of their
environments where sensory impressions are integrated with cognitive concepts such as
emotions or object recognition. Furthermore, when one sense is muted (such as closing
the eyes) other senses are prioritized. A theoretical framework termed as the "Sensthetic Model" is developed illustrating the interdependence of sensory, kinesthetic and cognitive factors, and the hierarchical and lateral relationship between sense-modalities.
The latter is the focus of studies with architecture students in abstract thinking exercises:
a) Hierarchical: Students perceive a hierarchy of senses (sensory order) when
they think about different places. Vision is primary, but not always. Touch, classically
relegated to the bottom of the hierarchy, is often higher in the hierarchy and coupled
with sound.
b) Lateral: Students associate colors with different sounds, smells, textures,
temperatures, emotions and objects and cross over modalities conceptually, with a
degree of consistency. There are more associations with emotions and objects (which are
not constrained to a single sense-modality), than with purely sensory images.
Finally, the theoretical model is further developed as a tool to think
"across" modalities (crossmodally) based on the identification of sensory orders and
sensory correspondences. By focusing on the sensory modalities (nodes) and the
relationships among them (connections), the model serves as a conceptual tool for
professionals to create sensory environments. This dissertation is an initial step beyond
the aesthetics of appearance, towards the Sensthetics of experience.
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Hwang, Joseph Wook. "Descartes and the metaphysics of sensory perception." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610004841&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Srikanth, Preethi. "Object to Experience: Understanding Perception to Create Events." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277134998.
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Melberg, Arne. "Sara Danius, The Senses of Modernism. Technology, Perception, and Modernist Aesthetics. Uppsala 1998." Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-200754.
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Magner, Jeremy. "The machines of perception." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24630.
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Steudte, Bjoern. "Architecture and Human Senses - Pre-School in alexandria Old Town." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30950.
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Throughout my years of architecture education I have become more and more aware that we are connected with architecture from the very first moments of our life. Architecture, an important part of our environment, affects our experiences, feelings, memories, and ultimately the decisions we make. To exploring the connection between architecture and the human experience was the intention for my thesis. Whether positive or negative, everything created or done by man has an affect on his environment. Some people are more aware of their architectural environment some are less but at the end we all life with it and have at least an unconscious impression of it. Based on these impressions and the consciously experienced details of our environment, of events we have feelings and make judgments and decisions. The nice dinner on a Friday night which makes you feel comfortable and good, it is a result of the whole environment of the place where you have dinner. Not only the room temperature, your company, your table neighbors, the restaurant staff, the expectations of the coming weekend but more important the dimensions of the space that make it feel grand or intimate, the way sound sticks to the walls or bounces off them giving life to the space, or the way a single beam of light can show you the beauty of colors and materials.Master of Architecture
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Warden, James. "Senses, Perception, and Video Gaming: Design of a College for Video Game Design and Production." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1116113863.
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Salkin, Sean. "A survey of the use of the term vedanā ("sensations") in the Pali Nikāyas." Connect to full text, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2075.
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Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Sydney, 2005.Title from title screen (viewed 28 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy to the Dept. of Indian Sub-Continental Studies, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Kinnear, Marise. "Sensory perception of different acidulants in flavoured sports drinks." Diss., Pretoria ; [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01292009-171015.
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Stüwe-Thanasoula, Marilena [Verfasser], and Anne [Gutachter] Storch. "Towards a grammar of the senses: perception in Lushese (Olussese) / Marilena Stüwe-Thanasoula. Gutachter: Anne Storch." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1104366665/34.
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Tilford, Robert Patrick. "Use your illusion : the flash-lag effect as a tool for psychophysics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54345/.
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The flash-lag effect is an illusion in which a moving object is perceived advanced beyond an aligned flash. The majority of research into the effect has been directed at specifying its source, though a small body of literature simply makes use of flash-lag to answer diverse questions about perception – without necessarily arbitrating between competing accounts of its nature. The current thesis expands on this little-explored potential of the flash-lag effect with the presentation of three papers reporting programmes of research that exploit the phenomenon to address issues unrelated to its cause. In the first paper it is shown that, like in visual flash-lag, a similar motion direction based anisotropy is evident in the motor version of the effect, in which one's unseen limb is perceived ahead of a flash. Specifically, the effect is greater for motion towards, rather than away from fixation. Furthermore, Paper I also demonstrates for the first time a motor flash-drag effect, in which one's unseen moving hand ‘drags' the perceived position of a nearby flash. It is argued that both of these findings are evidence of parallels between vision and action systems. Paper II takes advantage of the explicitly perceptual nature of the flash-lag effect to investigate whether the visuospatial perception of threatening objects is different to that of non-threatening objects. It is ultimately shown that when a moving stimulus is threatening, the flash-lag effect is greater, regardless of its direction of motion. Paper III shows that gamma movement (the apparent contraction of disappearing stimuli) adds to and subtracts from the forward displacement of contracting and expanding stimuli, respectively. Prior to these papers, however, an overview chapter reviews the flash-lag literature, and argues that the effect can be a useful tool for psychophysics, even without a consensus on its origin.
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Wright, Thomas D. "Towards a better understanding of sensory substitution : the theory and practice of developing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65758/.
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Visual impairment is a global and potentially devastating affliction. Sensory substitution devices have the potential to lessen the impact of blindness by presenting vision via another modality. The chief motivation behind each of the chapters that follow is the production of more useful sensory substitution devices. The first empirical chapter (chapter two) demonstrates the use of interactive genetic algorithms to determine an optimal set of parameters for a sensory substitution device based on an auditory encoding of vision (“the vOICe”). In doing so, it introduces the first version of a novel sensory substitution device which is configurable at run-time. It also presents data from three interactive genetic algorithm based experiments that use this new sensory substitution device. Chapter three radically expands on this theme by introducing a general purpose, modular framework for developing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices (“Polyglot”). This framework is the fuller realisation of the Polyglot device introduced in the first chapter and is based on the principle of End-User Development (EUD). In chapter four, a novel method of evaluating sensory substitution devices using eye-tracking is introduced. The data shows both that the copresentation of visual stimuli assists localisation and that gaze predicted an auditory target location more reliably than the behavioural responses. Chapter five explores the relationship between sensory substitution devices and other tools that are used to acquire real-time sensory information (“sensory tools”). This taxonomy unites a range of technology from telescopes and cochlear implants to attempts to create a magnetic sense that can guide further research. Finally, in chapter six, the possibility of representing colour through sound is explored. The existence of a crossmodal correspondence between (equi-luminant) hue and pitch is documented that may reflect a relationship between pitch and the geometry of visible colour space.
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Forder, Lewis. "The time course of the influence of colour terms on visual processing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60415/.
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This thesis explores whether colour terms (e.g., “red”, “blue”, “purple”, etc.) influence visual processing of colour, and if so, the time course of any effect. Broadly, this issue relates to debate concerning whether language affects the way we perceive the world (i.e., the theory of linguistic relativity). Three of the experiments conducted used the event-related potential method (ERP), taking electrophysiological measurements of visual processing and visual cognition in human participants. The ERP provides high-resolution information about the timing of neural activity in the brain and can therefore be used to effectively investigate the time course of a potential influence of colour terms on visual processing. The first study, using a behavioural approach, identified that colour terms can influence the detection of colours and colour-associated objects suppressed from awareness by continuous flash suppression. The second study found that a cross-linguistic difference in colour lexicons affected a post-perceptual ERP component (the P2-N2 complex), but not sensory ERP components occurring early in visual processing. However, the third study found that differences in colour naming within a language do affect an early sensory ERP component (the P1). The final study used ERPs to identify a post-perceptual neural marker (in the posterior P2 component) for the unique ‘pure' hues (red, yellow, green, and blue), which had previously only been defined and identified linguistically. All of the studies provide evidence that colour terms affect colour processing, and the specific time course of this effect is identified as being task-dependent. These findings have implications for broader debate about the influence of language on visual cognition and perception.
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Shing, Marn-Ling. "Developmental trends in understanding an illusion based on weight adaptation : the effect of cueing questions /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487335992903047.
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Gerstley, Lawrence D. "Cross-modal and synaesthetic perception in music and vision." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2223.
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This thesis is concerned with the cross-modal and synaesthetic perception of musical and visual stimuli. Each of these types of perception has been researched separately, and a hypothesis is presented here that accounts for both cross-modal matching and the development of synaesthesia. This hypothesis claims that sensory information can be evaluated in another modality by using a scale of comparison in that modality. The first set of experiments examines normal subjects performing cross-modal matching with coloured circles and auditory stimuli that vary in complexity. It is shown that subjects use a variety of scales of comparison from both visual and auditory modalities to form matches. As the stimuli increase in complexity, the individual variation in cross-modal matching also increases. The second set of experiments examines matching performance using higher order stimuli, by having subjects evaluate fragments of melodies and complete melodies on affective and descriptive adjective scales. Melodies were also matched with landscape scenes to examine if subjects could form matches between two highly complex sets of stimuli. The final experiments examine synaesthetic associations with colour, evoked from music, letters, numbers, and other categorical information. Common features of synaesthesia from a population of synaesthetes are identified, and experiments performed to test the interference of the synaesthetic associations. Additional experiments are presented that explore the superior short-term memory of one synaesthete, and the role of his associations as a mnemonic device.
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Grant, Grainne Louise. "The Greek sense of smell : olfactory perception and the sociocultural roles of perfume in antiquity." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17556.
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Olfactory perception is as sociocultural a phenomenon as it is a physiological one. Scents of all types and the meanings assigned to them contribute to and shape human cultures, and humans have deliberately manipulated smells to sway the opinions and value judgements of others since, at the very least, the dawn of agriculture. ‘Smellscapes’ define our environments. How we smell what we smell and why we interpret what we smell the way we do are inextricably intertwined, and this was no less true in the Classical world. When we study how people in antiquity examined the sense of smell in general and the corresponding roles of perfume in particular, we see many of the same issues and questions being raised as concern scientists today. Applying modern models to ancient practices can enhance insight into Greek and Roman cultures. This paper will discuss physiological olfactory perception as the authors in the Classical and Hellenistic periods defined and described that, and will examine the primary literature regarding perfume in order to provide a specific example of one way in which we can be initiated into the mysteries of a different and long-gone cultural sensorium through the written word.
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Davidson, Kelly Patricia. "On unifying the laws of sensation : an empirical investigation of predictions arising from Norwich's theory of perception." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29594.
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The present thesis constitutes an empirical investigation of the prediction of Norwich's Entropy Theory of Perception that the positive exponent of the magnitude estimation power function and the negative exponents of equations relating the Weber fraction and simple reaction time to stimulus intensity should, since they can all be derived from the theory's Fundamental Equation, be numerically the same.
A pilot study consisting of magnitude estimation and reaction time experiments (using pure tone auditory stimuli of varying intensities at five frequencies), and a "main" study comprised of magnitude estimation, reaction time, and Weber fraction experiments are described.
The results, while offering possible confirmation of the prediction, remain somewhat tentative, owing to the persistently problematic technique of curve fitting upon which determination of the reaction time and Weber fraction exponents rests.
The theory, in leading one to even attempt to compare such previously unrelated measures as magnitude estimation and reaction time with Weber fractions, has yielded, theoretical issues aside, some worthwhile empirical results: I have obtained measures on three different psychophysical tasks from the same subjects over (effectively) the same stimulus range for each of those subjects; and, moreover have, I believe for the first time, explicitly noted that the Weber fraction displays the same decrease in exponent with increasing frequency, followed by an upturn at the highest frequencies, that characterizes both the equal loudness curves and the reaction time curves a la Chocholle. Suggestions are made regarding supplementary curve fitting methods by which to analyze these data, as well as for future research in the psychophysiological realm which, in addition to expanding the scope of the prediction that is being tested, may provide some much needed insight into the numerical values of the multiplicative and additive constants that occur in the equations under consideration in this thesis.Arts, Faculty of
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Lewis, Lindsay Burke. "Cross-modal plasticity for tactile and auditory stimuli within the visual cortex of early blind human subjects." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3338839.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 13, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-211).
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Price, Richard. "The way things look." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670132.
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Smee, Delbert Lee. "The Ecology of Yikes! Environmental Forces Alter Prey Perception of Predators." Diss., Connect to this title online, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-05082006-213823/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 28, 2006). Marc Weissburg, Committee Chair ; Mark Hay, Committee Member ; Lin Jiang, Committee Member ; David Dusenbery, Committee Member ; Don Webster, Committee Member. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-122).
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Nyström, Erik. "Interpretations of reality : a design exploration on the ambiguous." Thesis, Konstfack, Industridesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5817.
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Is there possibly a way design can make us reflect upon and acknowledge multiple realities? Our perceptions are so individually rooted that we can practically say that we experience multiple realities. Depending on which senses we use and what previous experiences we have, we explore our physical world in such a way that one could say that it’s a reality of it’s own. By exposing ourselves to multiple realities we not only learn more, we also diminish our generalisations within that field. Through the objects presented in the project, I question how aesthetics and functionality can stimulate new views and experiences, opening up how we perceive the world in different ways. Thus giving us different associations of what objects come to mean to each and everyone - our subjective reality. The project resulted in three proposals which are related to the private home, but has been given a costume of ambiguity to connect with viewers and users on a more individual plane. Who do you see in the mirror? Is it a table, or is it actually an instrument? Does our previous experiences reveal in how we interact with objects?
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Vieira, Daniela Lopes. "Habitar sem ver." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18440.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Ao longo da vida, o homem compõe a sua identidade tendo em conta as várias vivências e experiências que acompanham o seu percurso. A maioria, foram fruto do ato de habitar o mundo, com o qual cria uma forte relação. Este processo que foi dando significado ao habitar de cada um, tem por base, toda a experiência vivida ao nível da esfera habitacional. Esta, tendo em conta as exigências do habitante, deve ser o espelho de toda a sua personalidade, como também, das suas necessidades. Neste sentido, a presente investigação intitulada de “Habitar sem ver - Arquitetura para invisuais”, pretende compreender de que forma a esfera habitacional deve responder às exigências e necessidades de um cego, proporcionando-lhe bem-estar e um elevado nível de conforto e autonomia. Neste sentido, o processo teve em conta duas esferas relativas à cegueira total: os cegos congénitos e os cegos adquiridos. Assim, e tendo como base a temática da inclusão, o cego ocupa a base de todo o processo desenvolvido, que deverá dar resposta não só a esta restrição visual, como também às restantes deficiências, defendendo assim, uma Arquitetura Inclusiva. A fim de atingir o objetivo referido, foi colocada uma questão inicial: ‘Qual o papel da arquitetura e do arquiteto no desenho do espaço habitacional de uma pessoa cega?’. Esta, para além de originar outras interrogações, permitiu também levantar várias hipóteses. Com o intuito de lhes dar resposta, foi necessário entrar diretamente no mundo não-visual, através da realização de várias entrevistas. Esta envolvência com os vários participantes permitiu esclarecer todas as incertezas geradas ao longo de todo o processo. A casa deve ter a capacidade de responder a todas as necessidades de quem a usufrui, permitindo ao Homem chegar ao verdadeiro significado do verbo habitar.
ABSTRACT: Throughout life, man builds forms his identity based on various experiences that follow him through the course of life. Through life, man builds his identity based on experiences, most of them followed by the outcome of their actions while living in the word gathered by residing in the world. The process that gives meaning to the inhabit the way we live, relies on the level of experience we develop around the housing sphere. Take into account, the inhabitants must become the mirror of all personalities and needs. The present investigation, titled “Habitar sem ver – Arquitetura para invisuais”, pretends to understand how the housing sphere must respond to the requirements and needs of a blind person, providing the levels of comfort and independence. On this matter, the process debated is about two kinds of blindness: those born blind and those cognitive blind. Based on the inclusion theme, all the developed processes must not give an answer to the restriction of seeing but an answer to all kinds of disabilities, therefore defending an Inclusive Architecture. In order to achieve the referred objective, an issue has been raised: ‘What is the role of architecture and the role of the architect who is taking responsibility of drawing the living space for a blind person?’. To achieve an answer, it was necessary to enter and envision the world of the blind which was possible, through interviews. Being able to achieve these interviews, it was possible to clarify all the doubts gained during the process. The house must have the ability to achieve answers regarding all the needs of the person who’s enjoying it, allowing the Man and also the blind man in this case, to achieve the real meaning of the verb inhabit.
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Landis, Mark J. "Building Kant: The Architecture of Richard Neutra as an Application of Kantian Ideas." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1462626205.
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Jeong, Jong Min. "Becoming-dementia as an immanent condition of co-dwelling in everyday life." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/becomingdementia-as-an-immanent-condition-of-codwelling-in-everyday-life(8e09248e-748a-48ee-89d3-cb58664e1d3e).html.
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What have those living with dementia lost? If they have lost aspects of their mind and self, who are they now? Are they 'normal'? Prevailing medical, therapeutic and sociopsychoanalytic interventions and studies on dementia, largely influenced by Tom Kitwood's person-centred approach, have focused mainly on revealing and evaluating the remaining intact bodily abilities and functions beyond loss. In contrast to this predominant understanding of dementia, my decade-long involvement in a Jewish Care Home as a volunteer and researcher has raised ontological, epistemological and practical critiques, acknowledging that we are never beyond loss but always alongside it, and that we simply do not know how to dwell well with it. Although the expressive and performative words, gestures and behaviours of those with dementia are often regarded as inarticulate, repetitive and nonsensical, these are the lived worlds of dementia that those affected feel, experience and live through, whilst continuously making relations and familiarising themselves with people, things, and their surroundings. This demands a paradigm shift in the ontological, epistemological and practical horizon within the study of dementia. Critically developing Canguilhem's notion of the normal and the abnormal, Ingold's dwelling perspective and Deleuze's concept of becoming, I redefine dementia not as a fixed mode of being but as a continuous process of becoming-dementia through an attentive engagement with one's immediate surroundings. In more detail, this study explores the ways in which people challenge the taken-for-granted concepts of loss and abnormality in five different dementia contexts: ethics, repetition, time, agency and emplacement. By rejecting medical preconceptions or categorisations, this study focuses on uncovering what loss does in everyday life rather than asking what loss means or what people lose. In particular, this study emphasises bodily movement, sensory perception and affect, not because of the language deterioration during dementia trajectories but because of a new way of understanding and new reality that those affected practise in daily life. Consequently, this study illustrates the immanent potential of the anthropological view for thinking and dwelling with those living with dementia alongside their limits and implications. This study is thus an autobiographical ethnographic testimony of my past decade living, learning, volunteering, studying and most importantly co-dwelling with those living with dementia. This is a collaborative co-production created with those involved, as without the participation of those affected and the co-presence of significant others, my work could not be done. Accordingly, there is neither a beginning nor end to this study, but a moving forward and generating dementia becoming as the lives of those affected and those who care for them unfold.
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Braat, Sylvie Anne Ingrid. "On sensory experience of historic architecture : an empirical review of sensory perceptions in historic buildings, aiming to inform their conservation process." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2725.
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This thesis studies people’s sensory perceptions of historic architecture, exploring the physical triggers for such experience, and connecting these with what can and should be maintained through building conservation. Sensory design is a developing field in architecture. The research argues that this approach can inform people’s understanding of the architectural experience of historic buildings, which in current discourse are predominantly considered for their associated ‘cultural significances’. People’s affinity to (historic) buildings is initiated by a response through the senses. This research advocates that establishing the triggers for such sensory response should be the main focus of the initial assessment of a building for conservation. From the review of changing approaches to building conservation, and exploration of sensory perception and sensory design, the research concludes people’s experiential perceptions have not been structurally considered in the appraisal of historic buildings. The methodology entailed the empirical development of a suitable assessment format, through performing initial on-site surveys that generated data to be added to those of a final sensory assessment, covering three buildings. Buildings were assessed according to Gibson’s sensory systems of visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory/gustatory and orientational perception, as well as with a comprehensive multisensory focus. Evidence from the data retrieved through this research indicates that the sensory assessment is a useful, informative and exciting addition to any architectural survey in building conservation practice. Such rich information will provide guidance and clarity to decision processes, to assist in retaining the affinity as the building’s physical relevance for the future. The research makes an original contribution to knowledge through the combination of two areas of study; through the application of sensory perception to understand historic buildings; and, in demonstrating that a sensory assessment has true potential as a suitable approach to the issue in practice.
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Siggelin, Alstermark Madeleine, and Sofia Paasila. "Marknadsföring på språng : En komparativ studie om hur löplopps marknadsföring kan referera till människans fem sinnen." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33199.
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Syftet med denna undersökning är att den ska öka förståelsen kring hur referenser till människans fem sinnen kan se ut i marknadsföring av löplopp. Tidigare studier menar att det är svårt, om inte omöjligt, att stimulera vissa av dessa sinnen via sociala medier vilket också väcker ett intresse för hur företag arbetar för att komma i kontakt med dessa sinnen? Undersökningen fokuserar på fem löplopps marknadsföring. För undersökningen har en kvalitativ metod använts där loppens hemsidor, officiella filmer samt Facebook- och Instagram-inlägg studerats. För att förstå insamlade data har dels en teori om sinnesmarknadsföring av Hultén, Broweus och van Dijk använts men också en teori gällande samverkan mellan text och bild av Nordström. Dessa används vidare som verktyg vid analysarbetet tillsammans tidigare forskning. Resultaten av föreliggande studie visar att löploppens marknadsföring via Internet endast stimulerar synen samt hörseln. För lukten, smaken och känseln kan människan endast ha minnen till upplevelser genom just dessa sinnen.The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of how references to humans five senses can be seen in the marketing of running races. Earlier studies highlight that it is difficult, if not even impossible, to stimulate some of these senses through social media, which also raises an interest in how companies work to get in touch with these senses? This study focuses on the marketing of five running races. For this study, a qualitative method has been used where the websites of the running races, official videos, Facebook and Instagram posts have been studied. In order to understand the collected data, a theory of sense marketing by Hultén, Broweus and van Dijk has been used, but also a theory about interaction between text and image by Nordström. These two theories are used as tools in the analysis work. The results shows that the marketing of the running races only stimulates the sight sense and the sense of hearing. For the smell sense, taste sense and touch sense the human being can only have memories of experiences through these specific senses.
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Pahome, Thanadon, and Narat Amorntatkul. "How sensory marketing applies to the hotel and restaurant industry in order to influence customer’s behaviour in Thailand." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12634.
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Suhonen, Terhi, and Jenny Tengvall. "Branding in the air : A study about the impact of sensory marketing." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-11507.
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Background: Previously, marketing has focused on audiovisual stimulus but as a result from the information overload of the modern society, companies find it harder to differentiate from the competitors through the traditional marketing channels. Consumers of today tend to take functional attributes for granted and seek for an emotional involvement in the purchasing process. Sensory marketing aims at strengthening the relationship between a brand and its consumers on a deeper level through the involvement of the human senses; sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Since the phenomenon is relatively new, the amount of studies concerning the eventual benefits on brand perception is limited.
Purpose: This study investigates how sensory branding can influence the perception of a brand for the consumer.
Method: The use of sensory branding was explored by conducting interviews with specialists within the field. The main basis for this research was an experiment, where the effect of using an ambient scent in the branding process was tested in order to investigate and analyze its effect on brand perception.
Conclusion: Sensory marketing changes brand perception positively when the stimulus is congruent with the other brand elements. It can thus be seen as a suitable tool for reinforcing the value of a brand. A congruent stimulus influences the consumer on an unconscious level and can affect preference positively hence triggering impulse buying behavior.Adding a sensory dimension to the marketing strategy can strengthen the brand equity implying a stronger bond between the brand and the consumer. However,the authors argue that a strong brand platform is required to benefit ultimately from an investment in sensory branding. The use of sensory branding is growing rapidly and it is predicted to be the future of strategic branding.
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Leite, Maria de Jesus de Britto. "Formar não é informar: um percurso sensível na formação do arquiteto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16131/tde-27052010-132106/.
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Esta é uma investigação sobre a formação do arquiteto em sua dimensão sensível. A visão persistente de que ser artista é uma condição inata de alguns seres humanos tem gerado dificuldades na ação de criar, entre os aprendizes de arquitetura, à revelia das descobertas da Ciência sobre as capacidades cerebrais do ser humano, descobertas que interferem nas reflexões sobre como acontece o conhecimento. Ainda dificulta essa formação, um mundo atual consumista e negativamente pragmático que interfere na missão formadora da instituição escola de arquitetura, querendo forçá-la a ser mero curso profissionalizante. Esse panorama apresenta uma estrutura de formação sem a condição de poder alcançar a sensibilidade do aprendiz para fazê-lo perceber, intuir, criar espaços com sua dimensão que supera a função de abrigo das atividades humanas: sua condição de Arte. Este é o motivo desta Tese: propor uma modificação na fisionomia das estruturas vigentes de formação do arquiteto para que ela possa ser mais estimuladora da sensibilidade de seus aprendizes.This is a research on architect formation in its dimension of Art. The predominant and persistent view that to be an artist is an innate condition of some human beings has been producing difficulties in the action of creation, among the apprentices of architecture, which ignore the science discoveries about the human beings brains. Another difficulty to this formation is the present consumer and pragmatic world which interferes on the formative mission of the school of architecture institution, pretending enforced it to be a mere professional course. This scene presents a formation structure without a condition that could allow to reach the sensibility of the apprentice in order to make him perceive, feel, create spaces with his own dimensions which overcome the function of sheltering human activities: its Art dimension. This is the leitmotiv of this thesis: to propose another physiognomy to the present structure for the architect formation as a way to make it more stimulating to the sensibility of its apprentices.
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Lindberg, Celine, and Filippa Forsstedt. "Upplevelser av butiksatmosfärer med materiella och immateriella faktorer i fokus : En fallstudie av Porsche Center i Segeltorp och i Malmö." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45861.
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The aim of the bachelor’s thesis is to examine whether the atmospheric experience differs between two different stores within the same brand, depending on tangible and intangible elements. The authors have focused on how certain selected elements have been implemented in the store environments, to identify whether these can steer the atmospheric experience in different directions. The research question in the study is: Do the atmospheric experiences differ between stores within the same brand, depending on tangible and intangible elements in the store environment? To investigate the research question, three semi-structured interviews were conducted (one interview for Porsche Center Segeltorp and two interviews for Porsche Center Malmö). The respondents were representatives with experience in the research area, such as the CEO and marketing managers. In addition, participatory observations were performed at Porsche Center Segeltorp and Porsche Center Malmö, with focus on tangible (for instance textiles and furnishings) and intangible elements (for instance colors and scents) within the store environments. The findings from the observations and interviews show that different implemented tangible and intangible elements in a store environment result in different atmospheric experiences. The added scent at Porsche Center Malmö had an impact on the observers’ atmospheric impression, where the scent had a stronger association with the brand rather than the store environment. In addition, the bright colors and light inputs contributed to the observers' perception of the store environment as larger, which gave an intuition of exclusivity. Furthermore, the observers state that the sense of taste does not occur naturally in the atmosphere. Thus, it cannot trigger gastronomic experiences. However, the results do also show that the staff hospitality contributed to an increased level of well-being by offering snacks and beverages, which in turn improved the overall experience of the atmosphere in the store. Intangible elements such as scent and color have been shown to have a major impact on how the atmosphere is experienced by the recipient. Thus, it can be to a company's advantage to take both tangible and intangible elements into consideration, in order to steer the recipient's atmospheric experience in the desired direction.Kandidatuppsatsen syftar till att undersöka om upplevelsen av butiksatmosfären i två butiker inom samma varumärke, skiljer sig från varandra beroende på materiella och immateriella faktorer i butiksmiljön. I undersökningsprocessen har författarna lagt fokus på om skillnader i utvalda materiella och immateriella faktorer kan styra atmosfärupplevelsen i olika riktningar. Frågeställningen som undersöks är: Kan upplevelsen av butiksatmosfären skilja sig mellan butiker inom samma varumärke beroende på materiella och immateriella faktorer i butiksmiljön? För att undersöka detta har tre semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts (en intervju för Segeltorp och två intervjuer för Malmö). Respondenterna är väl insatta inom ämnet, såsom verkställande direktör och marknadsansvariga. Dessutom har en deltagande observationer utförts på Porsche Center Segeltorp och Porsche Center Malmö, där författarna till studien har observerat butiksatmosfären i syfte att analysera valda materiella (till exempel textilier och inredning) och immateriella faktorer (till exempel färger och dofter) i butiksmiljön. Resultatet visar att skillnad i materiella och immateriella faktorer inom en butiksmiljö resulterar i olika upplevelser av atmosfären. Den tillsatta doften på Porsche Center Malmö hade en inverkan på mottagarens upplevelse av atmosfären, där doften fick en starkare association till varumärket än till butiksmiljön. Dessutom bidrog den ljusa kulören och stora ljusinsläppet i butiken till att observatörerna upplevde atmosfären som större, vilket gav en intuition av exklusivitet. Vidare konstaterar observatörerna att smaksinnet inte förekommer naturligt i atmosfären, och kan därmed inte utlösa gastronomiska upplevelser. Resultatet visar dock att personalens gästvänlighet mot observatörerna, i form av att erbjuda dem något att dricka och äta, bidrog till ett ökat välbefinnande som i sin tur bidrog till en förbättrad helhetsupplevelse av atmosfären. Immateriella faktorer såsom doft och kulör har visat sig ha stor inverkan på huruvida atmosfären upplevs av mottagaren. Därmed kan det vara till ett företags fördel att fästa anseende vid samtliga faktorer i syfte att styra mottagarens atmosfärupplevelse i önskad riktning.
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Gregoric, Pavel. "Aristotle on the common sense." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273207.
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Mota, Maria Ribeiro Duarte Opinião da. "Fatores críticos de sucesso do marketing sensorial na gastronomia molecular." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17417.
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Mestrado em Ciências EmpresariaisA presente dissertacão tem por objetivo analisar o comportamento sensorial do consumidor em relacão à Gastronomia Molecular, e chegar aos fatores críticos para o seu sucesso.
The present thesis has the goal of analysing the consumer's sensory behaviour and reactions in what respects molecular gastronomy.
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Sulaiman, Amo. "Perception : sense-datum theories and propositional seeing /." [Bern] : [s.n.], 1995. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Thompson, Julia. "A Sense of Time, A Sense of Self: The 'Lived Perspective' of the Walk." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32508.
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Much of the walking that we do in our daily lives is dull, but sometimes, unexpectedly, it can be revelatory. During these moments, through what phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the â lived perspectiveâ of walking, we experience a merging of our inner and outer worlds and achieve greater self-awareness.
Although most of our experience in the landscape is through movement, we rarely design for such spaces. Using the hypothesis that terrorist threats and an aging infrastructure may lead to the rerouting of the CSX Railway south of Washington, D.C., shutting down the existing line, I propose to convert the CSX Railway bridge that crosses the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington to an open public space. While other portions of the track may be demolished and returned to the wide avenues envisioned by Lâ Enfant or renovated as trolley tracks, the CSX bridge could be renovated to provide a link between the neighborhood of Capitol Hill and the Anacostia River through a pedestrian walkway.
The methodology I use to explore this thesis is two-fold. I study several environments, from site-specific artworks to monuments to large urban parks. I also study fields that explore the experiential nature of perception such as art and philosophy, and use the freedom of expression that drawing allows as a tool to inform the design of spaces that can enable us to experience a state in which our mind, body, and vision are intertwined.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Estrela, Bruna Silva. "A arquitetura e os sentidos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/22135.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura com a especialização em Interiores e Reabilitação do EdificadoO tema desta dissertação teórica – A Arquitetura e os Sentidos: perceção auditiva na leitura arquitetónica – surge da necessidade e vontade antiga de compreender a relação humana na perceção do meio arquitetónico. A experiência sensorial humana, complexa e intrínseca ao Homem, assenta em pilares estruturados, recorrendo a experiências, memórias e noções culturais distintas. Muitas pessoas, desprovidas do sentido básico da cadeia hierárquica sensorial – a visão – acabam por intensificar a sua conexão ao meio, recorrendo aos demais sentidos. A audição na arquitetura está ligada à acústica dos espaços, à sonoridade que os materiais materializam, à relação entre a arquitetura, a música e a espiritualidade. Pretende-se comprovar a veracidade destes dados recorrendo a obras ímpares que revelam o sentido de experiência sensorial. Pondera-se sobre a noção de perceção arquitetónica e como esta se desenvolve em questões de harmonia, proporção, na memória e sentido de identidade, na conetividade empática, na criação de atmosferas e nos traços do tempo – como elementos que encaminham a uma complexa experiência multissensorial. Deste modo, segue a investigação dos sentidos ouvidos, examinando os seus impactos físicos, emocionais e sensoriais. Incidindo em questões associadas à importância do som em arquitetura, a aplicação/seleção de materiais em arquitetura que estimulam o ouvido humano a (re)conhecer espaços com primazia; a relação sonora entre o interior e o exterior; a importância da psicologia associada à arquitetura; a individualidade acústica desenvolvida em espaços de cariz musical e espiritual. Exemplos ilustrativos destes tópicos são as três obras analisadas: Aula Magna da Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa (Porfírio e António Pardal Monteiro), Oceanário de Lisboa (Peter Chermayeff) e Igreja do Sagrado Coração de Jesus (Nuno Teotónio Pereira e Nuno Portas). O estudo avançado destes três casos é dividido em seções distintas: a primeira numa base formal, concreta e puramente técnica, a segunda associada a um cariz poético, sensorial e com uma vertente subjetiva induzida pelo espaço arquitetónico. Este processo caracteriza-se por ser encantadoramente desafiante, numa busca incessante de material que fundamente a necessidade de a arquitetura ser uma arte inclusiva, abraçando a comunidade e tornando todos os Homens parte integrante do meio. Pretende-se desta forma facultar aos executantes de arquitetura o material que os estimule a pegarem no potencial que têm à sua volta e criarem obras inclusivas e com significado – transcendestes ao olho humano.
ABSTRACT : The theme of this theoretical dissertation - Architecture and the Senses: auditory perception in architectural reading - arises from the ancient need and desire to understand the human relationship in the perception of architectural environments. Human sensory experience, complex in nature and intrinsic to humankind, lies on structured pillars and resorts to different experiences, memories and cultural beliefs. Those who are deprived from the basic sense of the sensorial hierarchical chain - the sight – end up intensifying their connection to the environment by using their other senses. The sense of hearing in architecture is directly linked to space accoustics, to the sound of materials as well as to the relationship between architecture, music and spirituality. This dissertation intends to prove the veracity of these data by using unique works that reveal the meaning of sensory experiences. Considerations are made on the notion of architectural perception and its development in matters of harmony, proportion, memory and sense of identity, empathic connectivity, the creation of atmospheres and the traces of time – as elements that lead to a complex multisensory experience. Thus, this investigation proceeds on to discuss the heard senses through the examination of their physical, emotional and sensory impacts by focusing on the following: issues associated with the importance of sound in architecture; the application/selection of materials in architecture that stimulate the human ear to (re)discover spaces with primacy; the sound relationship between the interior and the exterior; the importance of psychology associated with architecture; and the acoustic individuality developed in spaces of musical and spiritual nature. Core examples of these topics are the three works analysed: the Aula Magna of the Rectory of the University of Lisbon (Porfirio e António Pardal Monteiro), the Lisbon Oceanarium (Peter Chermayeff) and the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Nuno Teotónio Pereira and Nuno Portas). The advanced study of these three cases is divided into two distinct sections: the first, more formal objective and purely technical in nature; the second, more poetic, sensory and subjective induced by the architectural space. This process can be described as charmingly challenging given its underlying incessant search for material which justifies the need for architecture to be an inclusive art able to embrace communities and to make humankind an integral part of its environment. This work intends to provide architecture performers with material that encourages them to take the potential around them and create their own inclusive and meaningful works of art - transcendent to the human eye.
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Stanich, Veronica Dittman. "Poetics and Perception: Making Sense of Postmodern Dance." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1402089308.
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Schroeder, Stephanie Ann. "Connections through natural perceptions." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/schroeder/SchroederS1209.pdf.
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I believe that through sensory connection to our natural surroundings we will reinvigorate a deeper connection with ourselves and to the environment. Architecture could become the medium to create that connection as well as the physical manifestation of our understanding of existence and of time, which facilitates this connection. This thesis seeks an understanding of self and place through our sensory connection to nature. In our modern world, we are presented with a growing amount of synthetic and manufactured surroundings that are designed to be perceived through sight, while sound, smell, taste and touch are considered secondary senses, and experiential quality is not inherent. Our society is moving farther away from a connection to nature and a connection to the earth. I believe that through sensory connection to our natural surroundings we will reinvigorate a deeper connection with ourselves and to the environment. This thesis is exploring how nature is the medium for a deeper connection and understanding of ourselves, who we are, and how we interact with the environment through sensory perception. Natural materials and practices are being replaced with synthetics, which lack the cyclical nature and life of natural materials. Machine-made products lack the ability to connect on a humanistic level due to their perpetual state of youth. "We are increasingly detaching ourselves from 'organic and functional periodicity' which is dictated by nature, and replacing it by 'mechanical periodicity' which is dictated by the schedule, the calendar, and the clock."³ These fabricated objects intensify the isolated state of man from the natural world through their constant neglect of the senses and disregard for the energies intrinsic in natural materials. It is my belief that to be able to live meaningful and impassioned lives, we must become more aware of fabricated surroundings, and return to natural environment from which we came. By refocusing on natural processes and materials in the built environment, man can reawaken the relationship we have with nature. I believe that through understanding our surrounding's impact, we can connect with not only ourselves, but the environment.
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Blaney, Vaughan M. "Principalship and the sixth sense." Thesis, View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3528836X.
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Wilkie, S. "Common sense and metaphysics in the philosophy of perception." Thesis, Swansea University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636600.
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The fundamental and unargued assumption of the philosophy of perception is that there is such a thing as perception: where it appears explicitly, it is in the guise of common sense. Thus, it appears to corroborate the even more fundamental assumption that philosophy is an inquiry into ordinary questions, and, therefore, begins with concepts or ways of thinking which are non-philosophical. This thesis contrasts that theory with the arguments practised by philosophers of perception. Arguments which move from what you do believe to what you should believe are most effectively undermined by denying their premisses: the most pressing reasons for unmasking the technical language of philosophy is the need to ascertain whether you really do believe the things that philosophers say you do. I deal with those ideas, such as 'the senses' and 'seeing', which are used to slip to both 'perception' and the pretence that this is an ordinary idea. These belong to a tradition of thinking which makes the assumptions familiar, often even outwith philosophy. It is therefore imperative to distinguish the ordinary use to which such expressions are put from the ways in which philosophers employ them. The same applies to the very particular examples chosen to persuade us that, in some cases at least, we already carefully distinguish 'perception' from 'judgement'. The modern causal theory of perception is challenged because there is no ordinary notion of perception for it to elaborate. I argue that there is no real difference between the ideas of 'visual experience' and 'sense-data', and show that the distinction between 'objects' and 'experience' is not practical but theoretical, resting upon philosophical assumptions. Finally, I examine the imaginary examples of hallucination used to introduce the causal theory: were they real examples, there would still be no compulsion to understand them in the way these philosophers do.
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Fielden, Robert. "The role of sense-perception in Epicurus' Theory of Knowledge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313476.
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