Shared attention in virtual immersive reality enhances electrophysiological correlates of implicit sensory learning.

ABSTRACT: Shared attention effects on learning and memory demonstrate that experiences are amplified when we are not alone. Virtual reality poses new challenges to the study of co-presence. Above all, is coattending together with someone else's avatar in an immersive VR setting comparable with shared experiences at a neural processing level? In the present study we investigate shared attention effects in VR for the first time. We recorded mismatch negativities (MMN) during an auditory roving paradigm, a well-known index of implicit perceptual learning. EEG responses to deviant and standard sounds were registered while subjects were alone (Solo condition) or together (Other condition) with a virtual avatar (Virtual scenario) or physically present confederate (Physical scenario). We found an overall m

SUBMITTER: Sarasso P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10866920 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature