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Despite the growing research interest in the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), research on the triggers that induce ASMR has been scarce. In particular, the role of visual triggers in ASMR induction remains largely unknown. The current study, using the newly developed stimulus set, showed that the enhancement of auditory-induced ASMR by simultaneously presented visual triggers is due to information about the source of auditory triggers and that ASMR can be induced by visual triggers alone. In Experiment 1, we assessed whether the congruency of auditory and visual triggers affected the experience of ASMR and found that the occurrence of ASMR was significantly more frequent in the condition in which these triggers were congruent than when they were incongruent. In Experiment 2, we assessed whether the visual trigger was capable of inducing ASMR by itself and found that, although the frequency of ASMR occurrence was lower in the visual trigger than the auditory trigger only, the visual trigger was single-handedly able to induce ASMR. The generalization of these findings is provided by the sufficient number of newly prepared stimuli that successfully induced ASMR within a short duration. These results may facilitate psychophysiological research on the properties of ASMR-inducing stimuli. |
