Nick Corriveau Lecavalier|Émilie Ouellet|Benjamin Boller|Sylvie Belleville
Use of immersive virtual reality to assess episodic memory: A validation study in older adults
Université de Montréal|Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal|Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal|Université de Montréal|Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal|Université de Montréal|Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal|Université de Montréal
virtual reality vr allows creation ecological environments could used cognitive assessment intervention study comprises two parts describe assess immersive vr task virtual shop used measure episodic memory part 1 addresses applicability healthy older adults measuring presence motivation cybersickness symptoms part 2 addresses construct validity investigating correlations performance vr task traditional experimental memory task measuring whether vr task sensitive agerelated memory differences fiftyseven older 20 younger adults assessed virtual shop memorised fetched 12 familiar items part 1 showed high levels presence higher levels motivation vr traditional task negligible cybersickness symptoms part 2 indicates memory performance vr task positively correlated performance traditional memory task age groups agerelated differences found vr traditional memory tasks thus use vr feasible older adults virtual shop valid task assess train episodic memory population