Smelling lemons makes you feel
thinner: Study
Did you know that lemons can not
only help you get over a hangover but can also make you feel slimmer. Yes, a
new study has established that olfactory and auditory stimuli might change how
we perceive our body. For example, people tend to feel thinner and lighter when
exposed to the smell of lemon, while they feel heavier and more corpulent when
they smell vanilla.
This is one of the ruter
Interaction.esults of the investigation recorded in the article ‘As Light As
Your Scent: Effects of Smell and Sound on Body Image Perception’, which
explores the relation between smell and body shape. The findings were
presented at the meeting IFIP Conference on Human-Comp. The research team has demonstrated
that the image we have of our own body changes depending on the stimuli we
encounter, such as olfactory. Exposure to different smells can make
us feel slimmer or more corpulent.
Another sense that influences this
is hearing. Through a device adapted to a pair of shoes, developed by the
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2015 in collaboration with University
College London and the University of London’s School of Advanced Study,
researchers have analysed how our perception of our body changes when the
frequency spectrum of steps taken during physical activity was modified in
real-time.
“By increasing high frequencies,
people feel lighter, happier, walk in a more active way and as a result, they
find it easier to exercise,” explains Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, a lecturer in the
Computer Science and Engineering Department at the UC3M and one of the authors
of both investigations.
This technology, based on audio
stimulus, that was used successfully both in 2017 to treat people with chronic
pain and in 2019 to promote physical activity, is combined with olfactory stimuli in the
current investigation to show that both senses combined have a large influence
over the perception we have of our body image.
16.09.2019
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