Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition

Abstract Previous studies on aesthetic chills (i.e., psychogenic shivers) demonstrate their positive effects on stress, pleasure, and social cognition. We tested whether we could artificially enhance this emotion and its downstream effects by intervening on its somatic markers using wearable technol...

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Autores principales: A. J. H. Haar, A. Jain, F. Schoeller, P. Maes
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:307deeddd04f4c9ab3ea1c3fb7c1992c2021-12-02T15:11:49ZAugmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition10.1038/s41598-020-77951-w2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/307deeddd04f4c9ab3ea1c3fb7c1992c2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77951-whttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Previous studies on aesthetic chills (i.e., psychogenic shivers) demonstrate their positive effects on stress, pleasure, and social cognition. We tested whether we could artificially enhance this emotion and its downstream effects by intervening on its somatic markers using wearable technology. We built a device generating cold and vibrotactile sensations down the spine of subjects in temporal conjunction with a chill-eliciting audiovisual stimulus, enhancing the somatosensation of cold underlying aesthetic chills. Results suggest that participants wearing the device experienced significantly more chills, and chills of greater intensity. Further, these subjects reported sharing the feelings expressed in the stimulus to a greater degree, and felt more pleasure during the experience. These preliminary results demonstrate that emotion prosthetics and somatosensory interfaces offer new possibilities of modulating human emotions from the bottom-up (body to mind). Future challenges will include testing the device on a larger sample and diversifying the type of stimuli to account for negatively valenced chills and intercultural differences. Interoceptive technologies offer a new paradigm for affective neuroscience, allowing controlled intervention on conscious feelings and their downstream effects on higher-order cognition.A. J. H. HaarA. JainF. SchoellerP. MaesNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
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Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition
description Abstract Previous studies on aesthetic chills (i.e., psychogenic shivers) demonstrate their positive effects on stress, pleasure, and social cognition. We tested whether we could artificially enhance this emotion and its downstream effects by intervening on its somatic markers using wearable technology. We built a device generating cold and vibrotactile sensations down the spine of subjects in temporal conjunction with a chill-eliciting audiovisual stimulus, enhancing the somatosensation of cold underlying aesthetic chills. Results suggest that participants wearing the device experienced significantly more chills, and chills of greater intensity. Further, these subjects reported sharing the feelings expressed in the stimulus to a greater degree, and felt more pleasure during the experience. These preliminary results demonstrate that emotion prosthetics and somatosensory interfaces offer new possibilities of modulating human emotions from the bottom-up (body to mind). Future challenges will include testing the device on a larger sample and diversifying the type of stimuli to account for negatively valenced chills and intercultural differences. Interoceptive technologies offer a new paradigm for affective neuroscience, allowing controlled intervention on conscious feelings and their downstream effects on higher-order cognition.
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title Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition
title_short Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition
title_full Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition
title_fullStr Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition
title_full_unstemmed Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition
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