Testing principle of StimulTest

During testing, masked questions (stimuli) are presented on a computer screen.
Each question must be answered by pressing the same computer button.
The response should occur within up to one second.
After each answer, the next test question is presented.
The significance (importance) of test questions is determined by the speed of response (time to press the button).

Testing with text

Questions (stimuli) are presented on the computer screen in the form of words or phrases for a very short time (10 – 40 ms), during which a person does not have time to realize (see) them.

However, during this time, the human subconscious manages to recognize and evaluate their significance (importance).

After each stimulus, masking is presented in the form of a series of numbers for a long time (up to 600 ms), during which the person has time to see them. The purpose of camouflage is to highlight the issue so that it is impossible for them to see. At the same time, the camouflage changes every time.

Testing with Images

Questions (stimuli) are presented on the computer screen in the form of images for a very short time (10 – 40 ms), during which a person does not have time to realize (see) them.

However, during this time, the human subconscious manages to recognize and evaluate their significance (importance).

Answering questions

A person’s task is to answer all types of questions in the same way – to click on the mouse, on the touchpad or on the space bar every time he sees the camouflage. The speed of the response (pressing the button) automatically changes depending on the significance of the presented stimuli. In StimulTest, a person’s consciousness is technologically excluded from the process of assessing the importance of issues to which only his subconscious reacts.

Emotional Response Assessment

StimulTest technology allows you to determine a person’s emotional attitude to issues – what is acceptable for him and what is not, and to what extent.

In this regard, it should be noted that the distortion of information (lies) is a product of human consciousness (the result of critical assessment of the degree of danger). At the same time, the confirmation or denial of the existence of information (truth) is a property of the human subconscious.

Consequently, StimulTest technology allows you to receive answers to questions only from that part of the human psyche that always “tells the truth.” Isn’t this the dream of any psychologist or physiologist who studies the human psyche?

Stimulus presentation options

The technology allows you to present questions in three modes:

• UNCONSCIOUS mode to obtain MAXIMUM reliable (objective) results;

• CONSCIOUS mode (to obtain MINIMUM reliable (subjective) results;

• COMBINED mode for comparative analysis of objective and subjective results.

StimulTest is the first technology that allows, in one study, to find out the difference between a person’s subjective and objective attitude to the same questions (stimuli) of the test.

Research options

Research can be carried out in two modes: online and offline.
ONLINE mode with all the functionality presented in the system is applicable when connected to the Internet.

OFFLINE mode with limited functionality is applicable when there is no Internet connection. In offline mode, it is only possible to conduct research on previously prescribed tests. After connecting to the Internet, data from completed tests is automatically sent to the server, calculated results are provided within up to 5 seconds.

Topicality of technology

Currently, most psychologists tend to study human consciousness which significantly reduces the accuracy of their results. It is not a secret that it is the human consciousness that gives rise to lies – distortion of information to ensure personal safety.

At the same time, a person’s subconscious determines a person’s behavior, his actions, decision-making both in small things every day and globally for many years of life. That is why scientists are striving to create technologies that explore the human subconscious.. Several such technologies have already been created in the world which, unfortunately, have low practical efficiency due to their high price and/or locality, which does not allow the mass application of scientific achievements for the majority of people who need it.

Forerunners of the technology

During the test, questions (stimulations) are displayed on the computer screen. Each question must be answered by pressing the same computer button. The response should occur within one second. Each answer is followed by the next question of the test. The significance (importance) of the test questions is determined by the speed of the answer (the time taken to press the button).

academician
A.R. Luria
Research on associative motor reactions
“Diagnosis of traces of affect “
1927 year

academician
I.V. Smirnov
I.V. Smirnov
«Psychotechnologies»
1995 year

Doctor of Medical Sciences
E.A. Kostandov
Research on unconscious perception
«Psychophysiology of the conscious and unconscious»
2004 year

History of the creation of StimulTest technology

The author and developer of the technology is psychophysiologist Alexey Dubrovsky. The technology prototype was created between 2006 and 2008. An experimental version in the form of an online system was created from 2008 to 2010. There were conducted 12,000+ experimental studies between 2010 and 2016. Application methods in various areas were developed from 2012 to 2018. The first version of the StimulTest system was created in 2016. The second commercial version of the StimulTest system was created in 2018

Specifics of technology

A study of a person’s subconscious attitude to everything that needs to be known. Test large numbers of people simultaneously, anywhere, at any time. Creation of personal tests taking into account individual characteristics of a person. Each test is adjusted to the individual characteristics of the person. Opportunity to study people who cannot read or speak other languages. Optimization of the testing procedure for maximum comfort during the study. Scientifically based and practically proven research methods. Artificial intelligence technologies help to obtain the most accurate results. Application of BIG DATA technology to identify individual response specifics.

Data protection

The protection of the website and personal accounts of clients is confirmed by a cryptographic certificate. The transfer of information from personal accounts to the server and back occurs in encrypted form.
Access to each personal account using a personal login and password. The security of the client program is confirmed by a cryptographic certificate. To conduct tests in the system, there is no mandatory personification of people.
The testing procedure begins only after the person’s voluntary consent has been confirmed. Test results can be exported, copied, deleted from the system. The use of an autonomous server to protect state, military and commercial secrets. It’s a multi-layered counter-hacking system.

Technology accuracy

7+ years of testing and 12,000+ tests indicate such accuracy of research results:

1. Standard tests (without individualization) 65 – 75%;

2. Group tests (partial individualization) 75 – 85%;

3. Personal tests (full individualization) 85 – 95%.

All statistical data were confirmed only by objective facts, delayed from the research results from 1 day to 7 years.

In order not to mislead ourselves and clients a comparative analysis with other psychological or psychophysiological methods was not carried out because they have their own error rates.

Supporting documents

Certificate of Compliance

Validity confirmation

Utility model patent

Conclusion on safety

Copyright on the software

New evidence of the scientific validity of StimulTest technology

When creating the StimulTest technology, the scientific basis was the results of many years of research by scientists of the Soviet scientific school, which for many years were not available to foreign colleagues. The greatest contribution to the creation of our technology was the research results of Igor Viktorovich Smirnov, his key know-how – the synthesis of psychodiagnostics and computer technologies, the principle of which was described in detail in the monograph “Psychotechnologies”, published in 1995.

After 2004, this kind of fundamental research in the field of unconscious perception was no longer carried out in the countries of the former Soviet Union (at least, there is no such information in publicly available sources).

The authentic is always confirmed

In the European Union, the USA and Canada, research in the field of unconscious human perception has been successfully developing to date. One confirmation of scientific progress is the results of 15 years of experiments by Stanislas Dean, a neuroscientist, professor of experimental cognitive psychology, author of the theory of conscious and unconscious information processing, set out in his book “Consciousness and the Brain” (2018).

The author, on the basis of various studies, independently of Soviet scientists, comes to the same conclusion about the possibility and effectiveness of masking visual stimuli in the form of words (phrases) or images (images) when studying a person’s unconscious perception.

Practice is the criterion of truth

The results of studies of emotional modality and subjective significance of stimuli confirm a person’s ability to evaluate them at a subthreshold (unconscious) level of perception. These, as well as many other results of the masterly experiments of Stanislas Dean, in fact, are repeated and independent confirmation of the scientific validity of the StimulTest technology.

In turn, the results of an 8-year testing of the StimulTest technology in real conditions (more than 15,000 tests) clearly confirm the theoretical validity and practical usefulness of the scientific research of world-famous scientists. This is a vivid example of the help of fundamental science in improving the quality of human life!