ArticleInternational journal of biometeorology2015
Nonthermal sensory input and altered human thermoregulation: effects of visual information depicting hot or cold environments.
Article in International journal of biometeorology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Experimental study on the influence of virtual tourism spatial situation on the tourists' temperature comfort in the context of metaverse.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Perceptual-Semantic Congruency Facilitates Semantic Discrimination of Thermal Qualities.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
A recent study showed that thermoregulatory-like cardiovascular responses can be invoked simply by exposure to visual information, even though the thermal environments are neutral and unchanged. However, it was not clear how such responses affect actual human body temperature regulation. We investigated whether such visually invoked physiological responses can substantively affect human core body temperature in a thermally challenging cold environment. Participants comprised 13 graduate or undergraduate students viewing different video images containing hot, cold, or no scenery, while room temperature was gradually lowered from 28 to 16 °C over 80 min. Rectal temperature, mean skin temperature, core to skin temperature gradient, and oxygen consumption were measured during the experiment. Rectal temperature was significantly lower when hot video images were presented compared to when control video images were presented. Oxygen consumption was comparable among all video images, but core to skin temperature gradient was significantly lower when hot video images were presented. This result suggests that visual information, even in the absence of thermal energy, can affect human thermodynamics and core body temperature.
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