Abstract
Introduction :The purpose of the present
research was to study the effects of non-conscious information presents in
natural environment, on intuition in virtual environment. Therefore, the study
hypothesizes that there is continuity between this two environments through
intuition and non-conscious somatic reaction. Instead of giving the
instructions to switch the attention on the problem's resolution, we have
immersed the participant in an environment with clues before the instruction.
Therefore, the clues were neutral for the participant and without meaning. If
we follow the previous researches about priming, we would suggest that clues
from natural environment have activated a field of representations from the
background interface. When the participant had to make decisions, we suppose
that this activated field, through somatic reaction, guide the decision-making
and create an intuitive feeling. Intuition could be this continuous line, which
creates fluidity between different environments. Moreover, similarity in
implicit memory between the catogories of non-conscious clue and the problem's
solution in virtual environment could produce the intuition feeling.
Main hypothesis suggest that visual and olfactory primes in
natural environment could enhence intuition and influence the verbal decision
through somatic markers.
Methodology : A total number of 23 healthy
students who volunteered for the study were randomly assigned to one of two
conditions : control (N=11) and experimental (N=12). They were exposed to a
naturalistic visual environment via a Head Mounted Display. The visual
environment was a real urban scenario pre-recorded on vi-deo.It was filmed in
the 1st district of Paris between the Louvre museum and the Paris Opera. All
participants were immersed in the virtual environment where they had to resolve
an intuitive problem. The semantic category of the solution was linked with the
semantic category of the primes.
Results :Intuitive answers were
significatively different between the prime's groupe and the control's group.
Primed participants gave more intuitiv answers that non-primed participants.
Moreover, the amount of electrodermal variation and the temperatures's average
were significatively more higher in primed group compared with control
group.
Conclusion :The results suggest that the
similarity between the clues in the natural environment and the solutions in
the virtual environment could produce the intuition feeling. This intuition
feeling could influence the decision through somatic markers.
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