Presentation 2019-12-19
Visuo-tactile trypophobia
Haoqin Xu, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Yuki Yamada,
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Abstract(in English) Strong discomfort is aroused when looking at the image of clusters of holes (trypophobia). We examined how trypophobia arousing from the images is affected by tactile sensation of convex and concave materials. In Experiments 1 and 2 we measured emotional valence of visual and tactile stimuli individually. In Experiment 3, participants evaluated emotional valence of the trypophobic and neutral images while touching the tactile stimuli. The results showed no significant effect of the tactile stimulation on the image evaluation. In Experiment 4, participants observed the images and then immediately touched the tactile stimulus for 2000 ms. After presentation of these visual and tactile stimuli, they evaluated emotional valence of the images. As a result, both types of the images were evaluated as more uncomfortable when touching the convex stimulus than when touching the concave or flat stimulus. Our findings suggest that integration of visuo-tactile information is involved with trypophobia.
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Keyword(in English) Trypophobia / Vision / Tactile / Multimodality
Paper # HIP2019-68
Date of Issue 2019-12-12 (HIP)

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Committee HIP
Conference Date 2019/12/19(2days)
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Place (in English) RIEC, Tohoku University
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Chair Miyuki Kamachi(Kogakuin Univ.)
Vice Chair Shuichi Sakamoto(Tohoku Univ.) / Yuji Wada(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Secretary Shuichi Sakamoto(NICT) / Yuji Wada(NTT)
Assistant Atsushi Wada(NICT) / Hidetoshi Kanaya(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Yuki Yamada(Kyushu Univ.)

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Title (in English) Visuo-tactile trypophobia
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Keyword(1) Trypophobia
Keyword(2) Vision
Keyword(3) Tactile
Keyword(4) Multimodality
1st Author's Name Haoqin Xu
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kyoshiro Sasaki
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University/Kyushu University/Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(Waseda Univ./Kyushu Univ./JSPS)
3rd Author's Name Yuki Yamada
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
Date 2019-12-19
Paper # HIP2019-68
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) HIP-348
Page pp.pp.19-24(HIP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-12-12 (HIP)