Title
Subliminal Response Priming in Mixed Reality: The Ecological Validity of a Classic Paradigm of Perception
Abstract
Abstract Subliminal stimuli can affect perception, decision-making, and action without being accessible to conscious awareness. Most evidence supporting this notion has been obtained in highly controlled laboratory conditions. Hence, its generalization to more realistic and ecologically valid contexts is unclear. Here, we investigate the impact of subliminal cues in an immersive navigation task using the so-called eXperience Induction Machine (XIM), a human accessible mixed-reality system. Subjects were asked to navigate through a maze at high speed. At irregular intervals, one group of subjects was exposed to subliminal aversive stimuli using the masking paradigm. We hypothesized that these stimuli would bias decision-making. Indeed, our results confirm this hypothesis and indicate that a subliminal channel of interaction exists between the user and the XIM. These results are relevant in our understanding of the bandwidth of communication that can be established between humans and their physical and social environment, thus opening up to new and powerful methods to interface humans and artefacts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1162/PRES_a_00171
Presence
Field
DocType
Volume
Ecological validity,Computer vision,Computer science,Subliminal stimuli,Cognitive psychology,Response priming,Artificial intelligence,Mixed reality,Stimulus (physiology),Aversive Stimulus,Induction machine,Perception
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1054-7460
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cetnarski, R150.48
Alberto Betella28610.99
Prins, H3171.16
Sid Kouider4535.10