Citation

Yahata R, Takeya W, Seno T, Tamada Y. Perception 2021; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0301006620987087

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Vection has been reported to be enhanced by wind, as long as the wind is a normal temperature and not hot. However, here we report that a hot wind can facilitate vection, as long as it is natural and consistent with the visual stimulus. We created a fire-corridor stimulus that was consistent with a hot wind and a control stimulus composed of cubes, which were irrelevant to a hot wind. We compared the vection strength induced by a fire-corridor (fire condition) visual stimulus with that induced by geometric cubes (no-fire condition) visual stimulus. There were three wind type conditions: a normal temperature wind, hot wind, and no wind. The results showed that a normal temperature wind facilitated vection and that a hot wind (but not a normal wind) highly enhanced vection when a fire-corridor stimulus was presented. These results suggest that vection is highly affected and modulated by high-level cognitive processes.

Language: en

Keywords

meaning; temperature; fire-corridor; vection