Assessing the effects of cognitive ageing on navigation: a novel navigation test battery
| Autor: | Wiener, Jan, Carroll, Denise, Juthapan, Stacey, Bibi, Iram, Ivanova, Dima, Wolbers, Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| DOI: | 10.31234/osf.io/z96v7 |
| Popis: | Most research groups studying human navigation behaviour with virtual environments (VE) technology develop their own paradigms. This makes it difficul to compare results between groups, but also to create normative data sets for any specific navigation task. Such norms, however, are prerequisites for the use of navigation assessments as diagnostic tools, for example, to support the early and differential diagnosis of atypical aging. Here we start addressing these problems by presenting and evaluating a new navigation test battery that we make freely available to other researchers (https://osf.io/mx52y/). Specifically, we designed three navigation tasks, which are adaptation of earlier published paradigms used to study the effects of typical and atypical ageing on navigation: a route repetition task that can be solved using egocentric or viewpoint dependent navigation strategies, and a route retracing and the different approach direction tasks both of which require viewpoint independent processing. Despite introducing a number of changes to the original paradigms to make them look realistic and ecologically valid, and therefore easy to explain to people unfamiliar with VE or with cognitive impairments, we were able to replicate the findings from the original studies. Specifically, we found general age-related declines in navigation performance and additional specific deficits in tasks that required viewpoint independent or allocentric processes. These findings demonstrate that our new paradigms render reliable results and thus suited to be used more widely. |
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