Background
Methods
Participants
Study procedure
Conditioning stimuli
Visual stimuli
Auditory stimuli
Gustatory stimulus
Multisensory stimuli
Thermal sensitivity measures
Psychometrical and physiological measures
Statistical analysis
Results
Participants
Psychometrical measures
Conditions | Baseline (mean ± SD) | With stimuli (mean ± SD) |
P
|
---|---|---|---|
Visual | 0 ± 0 | 59.0 ± 24.1 | < 0.001 |
Auditory | 18.8 ± 15.0 | 65.6 ± 24.1 | < 0.001 |
Gustatory | 6.6 ± 4.4 | 40.3 ± 17.3 | < 0.001 |
Multisensory | 7.5 ± 4.9 | 47.3 ± 22.8 | < 0.001 |
Physiological measures
Thermal somatosensory sensitivity
Multisensory stimulation effect
Gender | Visual (1) | Auditory (2) | Gustatory (3) | Multisensory (4) |
F
|
P
| 1 vs .4 | 2 vs .4 | 3 vs .4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Female | Mean | −0.08 | −0.12 | −0.02 | −0.15 | 0.098 | N.S | 0.784 | 0.938 | 0.438 |
SD | 0.76 | 0.64 | 0.35 | 0.60 | ||||||
Male | Mean | 0.17 | −0.03 | 0.27 | −0.33 | 6.036 |
0.003
|
0.019
| N.S |
0.003
|
SD | 0.29 | 0.21 | 0.50 | 0.33 | ||||||
Sum | Mean | 0.04 | −0.08 | 0.13 | −0.24 | 2.241 | N.S | 0.058 | 0.387 |
0.004
|
SD | 0.57 | 0.46 | 0.45 | 0.48 |