Their voices act like fingerprints on my ears, like auditory smells so familiar and comforting and primal.
So, as a kind of auditory smelling salt, I turned to Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe and the first radio program they did, an audio staging of Bram Stoker's Dracula, one of the most horrific and transcendent presentations of sounds I've ever experienced.
Moreover, all the sensory cortices of the brain visual, auditory, olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and somatosensory have a similar six-layer processing structure.
The patient and family did not consent to further phenotypic studies such as smell acuity, auditory testing, and metabolic studies.
It could be auditory, it could be visual, it could be smell.
Their sense of smell is not highly developed, and auditory range is limited.
The term "tactual" will be used as a broad term to refer to any form of touch experience (so it's used in the same way that "auditory" and "olfactory" are used for hearing and smell ).
In simple terms, visual features are represented near the back of the brain in the areas specialised for visual processing; sounds in auditory processing regions close to the ears; and smells in the olfactory system that lies behind the nose.
Their sense of smell is not highly developed, and their auditory range is limited.
Participants could then endorse whether or not and to what extent this applied on a five-point Likert scale (1 5; no, mild, medium, strong and extreme) for five modalities (visual, auditory, tactile (touch), somatic (i.e., bodily sensations), olfactory (smell) and other).
