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In:Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 24] 2021
► pp. 439–473

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Chapter 12
From stimulations to stimuli construction and selection

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Published online: 1 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.c12
Article outline
  • 12.1From real life stimulations to stimuli in the laboratory
    • 12.1.1A short history of Stimulus in Psychology: A forgotten debate?
    • 12.1.2Stimuli and sensor technologies
      • Capturing vs interpreting the world
      • 12.1.2.1Visual capture and reproduction
        • Visual re-presentations and visual experiences in practices
        • The visual space as a learned representation
      • 12.1.2.2Auditory experience and acoustic capture and reproduction
      • 12.1.2.3Olfaction and taste experiences
  • 12.2From the global situation to analytic properties of stimuli
    • 12.2.1Segmentation and relevant categories
      • 12.2.1.1What, where, and when to cut
      • 12.2.1.2In the visual domain
      • 12.2.1.3In the auditory domain
        • Segmentation for speech
        • Segmentation for music
        • Segmentation for environmental sounds
      • 12.2.1.4In the olfactory domain
    • 12.2.2Stimuli selection
      • 12.2.2.1Selecting olfactory stimuli
      • 12.2.2.2Selecting auditory stimuli
    • 12.2.3Construction of the stimuli set
      • Familiarity
      • Typicality
      • Family resemblance within a stimuli set
      • The internal structure of the stimuli set
      • Stimuli as parts of experimental setting, for whom for what task?
  • Notes
  • References
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