Structure of Response Patterns to a Repeated Verbal Stimulus and Action of Noise and Odor on Originality

Abstract

Two samples of normal subjects ( ns = 73 and 100) were tested to observe how vision and audition, noise and odor affect responses to repeated presentations of the stimulus word in a word-association test. Patterns of responses reflect the alternation of vision and audition, noise increases repetition and alternation of responses and odor increases originality. This allows us to examine how the associations vary with an affective and somatic sensory perturbation.