"Local and global cross-modal influences between vision and hearing, tasting, smelling, or touching"

Förster, J. (2011). Local and global cross-modal influences between vision and hearing, tasting, smelling, or touching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(3), 364-389. doi:10.1037/a0023175

The article I chose for the chapter on sensation and perception was titled “Local and Global Cross-modal Influence Between Vision and Hearing, Tasting, Smelling or Touching.” This study was carried out over a series of six experiments. The study said there were distinctions between global and local processing styles. Researcher found that inducing hearing, smelling, touching and tasting stimuli can carry over to global versus local vision. Researchers in this study also used priming to study processing styles. Findings showed that sensory modalities are related to vision through processing styles. The study also showed that a reaction in one sensory modality can cause an effect in the perception of a different sensory modality. From this study, researchers also wanted to look at whether the different sensory modalities had an effect on creativity.