A comparison of immersive virtual reality with traditional neuropsychological measures in the assessment of executive functions
Autor: | Sylvia Terbeck, Catherine Deeprose, Sophie Melissa Clare Davison |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Neuropsychological Tests Audiology 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Executive Function Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Cognitive skill Neuropsychological assessment Cognitive decline Biological Psychiatry Aged medicine.diagnostic_test 05 social sciences Virtual Reality Neuropsychology Cognition Middle Aged Executive functions Psychiatry and Mental health Stroop Test Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Stroop effect Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 30:79-89 |
ISSN: | 1601-5215 0924-2708 |
DOI: | 10.1017/neu.2017.14 |
Popis: | ObjectiveThis study investigated immersive virtual reality (IVR), as a novel technique to test executive function of healthy younger and older adults. We predicted IVR tasks to have greater predictive power than traditional measures when assessing age-related cognitive functioning due to the real-world validity of the tasks.MethodsParticipants (n=40) completed the Stroop colour–word test and the trail-making test (TMT) as traditional and commonly used assessments of executive functioning. Participants then completed three IVR tasks; a seating arrangement task, an item location task (both set in a virtual chemistry lab), and a virtual parking simulator.ResultsYounger adults completed significantly more parking simulator levels (ppppConclusionIVR measures (i.e. number of parking simulator levels completed and number of objects placed in the seating arrangement task) were found to be stronger contributors than existing traditional neuropsychological tasks in predicting age-related cognitive decline. Future research should investigate the implementation of these real-world-based tasks in clinical groups given this promising initial work. |
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