Sensory Experiences

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Exploring meaning and the senses

Dubois Daniele Dubois(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 1. Dezember 2021

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Intro
Sensory Experiences
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of boxes
List of figures
List of tables
Prologue: Making sense of and with the senses
References
Foreword
Multicultural publishing policies: The editors' Atlantic divide
Multidisciplinary academic domains and applied research
Multilingual writing: English as a lingua franca
Diversity of writers and readers
From multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity and indiscipline
Positioning
A word on our approach
Editing decisions
References
Part I. Theoretical frameworks and some empirical results
Chapter 1. The five senses and the cognitivist approach to perception
1.1 The five senses: Tradition, evidence and mainstream
1.1.1 The (Western) philosophical tradition
1.1.2 The five senses from some psychology handbooks
1.2 Technology of sensors and psychology
1.2.1 Instruments for measuring the physical world
1.2.2 Instruments and psychophysics
1.3 The digital revolution: Computers and cognitive science
1.3.1 The emergence of a cyberworld
1.3.2 Psychology and cognitive science
1.4 Main concepts at work in cognitive science
1.4.1 Information and information processing
1.4.2 Representation and knowledge
1.4.3 The classificatory tradition and "natural" categories
History: The classificatory tradition
"Natural" categories in cognitive psychology
1.5 Sensory science and product experience
1.5.1 Humans as instruments in sensory science
1.5.2 Descriptors for product experience
1.6 Language and the senses
1.6.1 Language and cognitive science: Words and things
1.6.2 The semiotic triad
1.6.3 Language and thought in cognitive linguistics
1.6.4 Word games in wording the senses
The word "sense"
Naming the five senses
1.7 Back to psychology: A no man's land in cognitive science
1.8 Structure of the book
References
Chapter 2. Visual experience of the road for safe driving
2.1 Fundamental issues from behind the curtain
2.1.1 Institutional and funding aspects of a call for proposals
2.1.2 Rephrasing the question: Cooperation of knowledge domains
2.1.3 The perspective of cognitive psychology
2.1.4 Identifying categories of roads: Concepts and methods
2.1.4.1 From natural categories to categories for roads
2.1.4.2 The lexicon: From text units to road sections as stimuli
2.1.4.3 From reading to driving: Designing adequate procedures
2.2 Case studies: Re-presentations of roads for driving
2.2.1 Visual perception and representations for action
2.2.1.1 Material and stimuli set
2.2.1.2 Procedure
2.2.1.3 Participants
2.2.1.4 Results
2.2.2 Photos vs. drawings: Re-presentations of roads
2.2.2.1 Experiment 2A
2.2.2.2 Experiment 2B
2.2.3 Stimuli properties and participants' previous knowledge
2.3 Looking backwards from 20 years distance: Dead-ends and blooming springs
2.3.1 Some methodological issues
2.3.2 Beyond Rosch: Natural vs. action-centered and situated categories
2.3.3 Knowledge and representations: Affordances and Umwelt
2.3.4 Meaning, symbolic systems, languages, and experiential knowledge
References
Chapter 3. Experiencing and talking about colors
3.1 Colors in the world and color in science
3.1.1 Color and colors in history and physics
3.1.1.1 From colors as pigments for painting to color as light
3.1.1.2 Materiality and immateriality of color: Technology and color knowledge
3.1.2 The recent heritage from cognitive science
3.1.2.1 Color naming and categorization: Linguistic anthropology meets cognitive science
3.1.2.2 Reconsidering Berlin and Kay's paradigm
3.2 Case studies: Color experiences and naming in practices
3.2.1 Color charts and color words in commercial practices
3.2.1.1 Watercolor, oil and decoration: Artistic vs decorative paint charts
3.2.1.2 Color charts for cosmetics: Hair dyeing, lipsticks and nail polish
3.2.1.3 Color chips in charts for car paints
3.2.1.4 Conclusion
3.2.2 Color naming strategies in Palikur
3.2.2.1 Basic color terms in Palikur?
3.2.2.2 No name for "color"
3.2.2.3 Identification of various color naming strategies
3.2.2.4 Discussion and conclusions
3.2.3 Representations of colors and car industry demands
3.2.3.1 From an industrial demand to research questions
3.2.3.2 Colors in the real world and in artificial reality
3.3 Color(s): A diversity of semiotic statuses
3.3.1 Colors as matters
3.3.2 Colors as properties
3.3.3 Colors of things: Essence vs. appearance
3.3.4 Colors as signs: Indexes or symbols
3.3.5 Color as the phenomenal property of light
3.4 Going further
References
Chapter 4. Exploring soundscapes
4.1 Background
4.1.1 Historical overview and emergence of a scientific community
4.1.2 Names, categories and concepts
4.1.2.1 Lexical categories of soundscape
4.1.2.2 Naming soundscapes in different languages
4.1.3 From naming to meaning in discourse
4.1.4 Conclusion on different conceptualizations of soundscapes
4.2 How do people make sense of sounds around them
4.2.1 Categories of isolated everyday sounds
4.2.2 Soundscapes in individual memory
4.2.3 Exploring soundscapes in the wild
4.2.4 Exploring soundscape in the lab
4.2.4.1 Ecological validity of experimental settings
4.3 Soundscape as a hybrid concept
4.3.1 Theories of categorization
4.3.2 From sounds to sources and activities
4.3.3 The challenge of working across disciplines
4.4 Conclusion
References
Additional readings on soundscape research
Chapter 5. Exploring speech experiences: Linguists, speakers, sounds and meanings
5.1 Is speech just sounds?
5.1.1 Speech as auditory phenomena: Categorical perception within discourse acts
5.1.2 Speech as an acoustic object: Speech signals
5.1.3 Representing speech sounds
5.2 Speech in the wild: Historical landmarks in linguistic field-work
5.3 Case study: Muylaq' Aymara
5.3.1 Scientific positioning: Elaborating and rephrasing a research question
Where will I perform fieldwork?
Preparing to go from Amsterdam to Moquegua
5.3.2 Collecting speech sounds outside of the lab
5.3.2.1 Eliciting and recording speech sounds in the wild
5.3.2.2 Transcribing speech sounds in the wild
5.3.3 From collection to analysis of speech sounds
Why not just use features of the acoustic signal?
Why not just use the letters from (English, French) orthography?
Improved elicitation methods
5.4 A summary of methodological consequences
References
Chapter 6. Exploring and talking about music
6.1 Is music just sounds?
6.1.1 Music and speech vs. environmental sounds
6.1.2 Music vs. speech
6.1.3 Music and its instruments
6.1.4 Music recording, storing, duplicating, and rendering
6.1.5 Music and psychophysics
6.1.6 Ecological validity
6.1.7 Towards a multidisciplinary approach
6.2 Case study: Experiencing the electric guitar
6.2.1 Setting the stage
6.2.2 Listening only
6.2.3 Listening while playing
6.3 A summary of methodological consequences
References
Chapter 7. Smell: An unspeakable sensory experience?
7.1 What is olfaction about?
7.2 Odors and smells here and elsewhere
7.2.1 Odors ans smell in academic domains
7.2.2 Odor of death and devils, smell of life and gods
7.2.3 Odors and smells as social markers
7.2.4 Smell and cognition
7.3 Categories and knowledge of odors and smells in practices
7.3.1 The classificatory tradition of odors? or odorants?
7.3.2 Chemistry and technology of odors
7.3.3 Knowledges and categories for odors in (professional) practices
7.3.3.1 Savoirs faire olfactifs: Olfactory know-how
7.3.3.2 The new economic challenges between deodorization and odorization
7.3.3.3 Smell, scents and expertise in perfumes
7.4 Odors, smells: Languages and communication
7.4.1 Between taboos and confidentiality
7.4.2 Linguistic resources for olfactory experiences
7.4.2.1 A first lexical inventory from dictionaries
7.4.2.2 Word elicitation task: In search for an olfactory chart and basic odor terms
7.4.2.3 Beyond basic odor words: Morphological and syntactic constructions
7.4.2.4 Lexical forms and word meaning in the discourse of subjective experience
7.4.3 Experiencing and naming odors
7.4.3.1 Odors and "their" names: The veridical label revisited
7.5 Case studies
7.5.1 Odors in (public) space(s) of the real world
7.5.1.1 Led by the nose in commercial malls
7.5.1.2 Some "fragrances" of Paris?: An olfactory walk in the Parisian subway
7.5.2 Sensory experience in literary texts: Isotopy and interpretative course
7.6 Theoretical, methodological and societal consequences
References
Chapter 8. Taste as a holisensory experience
8.1 Taste of food and food to taste
8.1.1 Taste and flavor
8.1.2 What is tasted?
8.1.3 Food and eating as cultural practices: "You are what you eat"
8.1.4 In search for taste as the sensory experience for food
8.1.5 Exploring taste: Evolution in sensory sciences
8.1.6 Taste and languages
8.2 Case studies: Taste experience and ways of tasting
8.2.1 Ways of tasting and wording questions
8.2.2 Let's have some drinks
8.2.2.1 Different expertises in wine
8.2.2.2 Consumers' experience and discourse about champagne
8.2.3 Meaning constitution in discourse: The case of dark bread
Earthy: The taste of a dark bread
8.3 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9. From perception to sensory experiences: A paradigm shift
9.1 Sensory experience: Main concepts at work
9.1.1 Sensory experience as psychological invariants in memory
9.1.2 Reconsidering the five senses: Holisensoriality
9.1.3 Umwelt and meaning
9.2 Sensory categories as "acts of meaning"
9.2.1 From "natural categories" to categories as "acts of meaning"
9.2.2 "Ad hoc" categories, embodied and situated cognition
9.2.2.1 From "natural" to "ad hoc" categories (Barsalou)
9.2.2.2 From Rosch to Varela: From embodiment to phenomenology
9.2.2.3 Hutchins's distributed cognition in the "wild"
9.3 Senses, sensors, and material culture
9.4 Sense(s) and symbolic systems
9.4.1 Language(s) matter(s): Signifier and signified
9.4.2 From words to meaning constitution in discourse
9.5 Sense(s) and knowledges
9.5.1 Knowledge vs. knowledges
9.5.2 Beyond dualisms: Unification of knowledges and meaning constitution
9.5.3 From multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity
References
Part II. Methodological consequences and guidelines
Chapter 10. Questioning sensory experience
10.1 Exploring sensory experience: Revisiting some oppositions
10.1.1 Objective/subjective: A problematic couple
10.1.2 Worlds of senses, and objectifying subjectivity
Lure
Introspection
Material culture
Language and languages
10.1.3 Invariance between individual singularities and collective variations
Variations as independent variables?
Invariants and variations in data analysis
10.2 Methodological implications and iterative processes
10.2.1 Rephrasing the question
10.2.2 An interdisciplinary roadmap
10.2.3 Reducing complexity, but not too much
10.2.3.1 Who is concerned?: How to select the participants?
10.2.3.2 You said "context"?: Stimulations and stimuli
10.2.3.3 The influence of instructions and tasks
10.2.3.4 Results and data constitution
10.2.4 Ecological validity for the constitution of meaning
References
Chapter 11. Subjects or participants?
11.1 From what is concerned to who is involved
11.1.1 Who are they in psychological research
11.1.1.1 The APA Publication manual
11.1.1.2 Who are they in experimental and cognitive psychology?
11.1.1.3 Subjects and their names in cognitive research on perception
11.1.2 Who are they in other scientific domains?
11.1.2.1 Naming who is concerned in linguistics and anthropology
11.1.2.2 Human, animals and otherness
11.2 Participants in exploring sensory experience
11.2.1 Identifying who they are in exploring sensory experience
11.2.1.1 In the visual domain
11.2.1.2 In the auditory domain
11.2.1.3 In the olfactory and gustatory domains
11.2.2 Selecting subjects or defining participants?
Sex, gender and sensory experiences
Age or cultural practices at different ages?
11.2.2.1 Previous knowledge and expertise: Who are the experts?
11.2.3 Subjects + Researchers = A relation between Participants
11.2.3.1 Interactions between individuals as beings or agents
11.2.3.2 Relations between humans as socially situated agents
11.2.3.3 Expectations and knowledges
11.2.3.4 Shared expectations and intersubjective meaning
11.3 Where epistemological prerequisites meet ethical concerns
References
Chapter 12. From stimulations to stimuli construction and selection
12.1 From real life stimulations to stimuli in the laboratory
12.1.1 A short history of Stimulus in Psychology: A forgotten debate?
12.1.2 Stimuli and sensor technologies
Capturing vs interpreting the world
12.1.2.1 Visual capture and reproduction
12.1.2.2 Auditory experience and acoustic capture and reproduction
12.1.2.3 Olfaction and taste experiences
12.2 From the global situation to analytic properties of stimuli
12.2.1 Segmentation and relevant categories
12.2.1.1 What, where, and when to cut
12.2.1.2 In the visual domain
12.2.1.3 In the auditory domain
12.2.1.4 In the olfactory domain
12.2.2 Stimuli selection
12.2.2.1 Selecting olfactory stimuli
12.2.2.2 Selecting auditory stimuli
12.2.3 Construction 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?
References
Chapter 13. Procedures and outcomes
13.1 Setting the stage
13.1.1 Targeting sensory experience
13.1.2 The social relation between researchers and participants
13.1.3 Researchers and participants' a priori knowledges
13.1.4 Playing the game "as if": Ecological laboratory settings
13.1.5 Designing experimental settings
13.2 Revisiting classical procedures
13.2.1 Instructions as tuned linguistic instruments
Eliciting experiential knowledge as autobiographical memory
Naming what it is or expressing sensory experience
13.2.2 Procedures and methods from social sciences
13.2.2.1 Commented walks
13.2.2.2 Interviews and surveys
13.2.3 Adjusting questionnaires to sensory experience
Concepts wording and formulation of the questions
Genericity and specificity of the questions
Positive / negative orientation of the questions
Activity related questions: Cognition in practices
Order of the questions: The induction of answers
13.2.4 Scales and semantic differentials
13.3 Conclusion
References
Chapter 14. Making sense of the outcomes
14.1 Data as constructs
14.1.1 The quantitative/qualitative opposition
14.1.2 Beyond the quantitative/qualitative opposition
14.1.2.1 New perspectives and growing alternatives
14.1.2.2 Quantitative research, yes! . but after semantic control!
14.2 Numbers and words as embedded knowledge
14.2.1 Numbers as amodal symbolic representations
14.2.2 Words as forms and meaning
Iconicity of the linguistic sign and categorization
Motivation and morphological similarity in categorization
14.3 Linguistic expressions for sensory experiences
14.3.1 How can a word account for sensory experience?
14.3.1.1 Iconicity as the sensory relation between signifier and the world
14.3.1.2 Morphological similarities within linguistic systems
14.3.2 Words as signified: Lexical resources for sensory analysis
14.3.2.1 Source names as sensory words: Metonymy
14.3.2.2 Morphosyntactic devices
14.3.3 Sensory experiences and words (meanings) in context
14.3.4 Sensory experiences and knowledges in discourse
14.3.4.1 When one word is a discourse: The locutoire/delocutoire opposition
14.3.4.2 Personal marks
14.3.4.3 Modality and evidentiality
14.4 Tracking the objectivity of sensory experiences in discourse
References
Chapter 15. Free sorting task for exploring sensory categories
15.1 Background
15.1.1 A shift from the psychophysical tradition
15.1.2 The task
15.1.3 Free sorting tasks in psychology and sensory sciences
15.1.4 Theoretical framework for free sorting task
15.1.5 Free sorting task for sensory experiences
15.2 Guidelines and recommendations
15.2.1 Modality-specific procedure of free sorting task
15.2.1.1 Instructions
15.2.1.2 Stimuli selection vs. "objects" to be sorted
15.2.1.3 Participants
15.2.2 Output analysis
15.2.2.1 Mathematical analysis
15.2.2.2 Verbal analysis
15.2.3 Reconnecting to physical description of stimuli
15.3 Conclusions: Interests of free sorting task
References
Afterword
Reference
Further readings
Synesthesia & holysensoriality
Cognition
General
The phenomenological approach of cognition
Situated and ecological/cultural approach of cognition
Challenges for psychology
Semiotics
General
Semiotics & the senses
Linguistics
Linguistics fieldwork
Linguistics and sensory experience
Discourse analysis and cognition
Lexicon and terminology
Expression of subjectivity
Ideophones and phonosymbolism
Sensory Sciences
Anthropology, ethnology, history
Ethology: Umwelt and related concepts of "milieu" and "Fudo"
Epistemology and methodologies
Material culture
General
Visualization
Development of technologies and political consequences
Touch
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