Table 3.
Summary of the Sensory Challenge Protocol [52].
Features | Olfactory | Auditory | Visual | Tactile | Vestibular |
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Stimulus | Wintergreen oil contained in a small vial with a ball of cotton; kept at 1.25 cm deep. | Fire engine siren played at 95 dB. | 20-watt strobe light flashing at 10 Hz. | Finger puppet with a 5 cm feather attached distally | Chair placed on top of a tilted board supported by a 10 cm cube placed at each corner. Platform is a 75 cm square plywood board attached to a rotation board |
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Procedure | Experimenter covered a vial with his thumb until about to be presented. The vial was placed 2.5 cm away from child's nose moving from left to right. | Child listened to the tape-recorded sound. | Light was placed 60 cm away from the child, slightly below eye level and flashed continuously within the trial time window. | A feather was placed gently over the child's right ear canal and moved towards the left ear canal, passing along the bottom of the chin. | The chair was tipped backwards slowly and smoothly at an angle of 30° and placed upright afterwards. |
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Number of trials | 10 trials | ||||
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Trial time | 3 s/trial | ||||
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ISI | 15 or 19 s | ||||
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Order of presentation | Olfactory → Auditory → Visual → Tactile → Vestibular | ||||
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Intersensory domain interval | 20 s | ||||
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Setting | The laboratory was designed to look like a spaceship, with the paradigm designed to resemble a “spaceship trip.” The child was seated in front of a spaceship console with a 13-inch monitor screen and strobe light placed 60 cm away, at eye level. While preparing the experiment, the child watched a spaceship-themed video clip that was chosen to be nonstimulating but entertaining. |