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@ARTICLE{Wiener:145093,
author = {Wiener, Jan M and Carroll, Denise and Moeller, Stacey and
Bibi, Iram and Ivanova, Dima and Allen, Peter and Wolbers,
Thomas},
title = {{A} novel virtual-reality-based route-learning test suite:
{A}ssessing the effects of cognitive aging on navigation.},
journal = {Behavior research methods},
volume = {52},
number = {2},
issn = {1554-3528},
address = {Austin, Tex.},
publisher = {Psychonomic Society Publ.},
reportid = {DZNE-2020-00452},
pages = {630-640},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Most research groups studying human navigational behavior
with virtual environment (VE) technology develop their own
tasks and protocols. This makes it difficult to compare
results between groups and to create normative data sets for
any specific navigational 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 suite that we make freely available to other
researchers (https://osf.io/mx52y/). Specifically, we
designed three navigational tasks, which are adaptations of
earlier published tasks used to study the effects of typical
and atypical aging on navigation: a route-repetition task
that can be solved using egocentric navigation strategies,
and route-retracing and directional-approach tasks that both
require allocentric spatial processing. Despite introducing
a number of changes to the original tasks to make them look
more realistic and ecologically valid, and therefore easy to
explain to people unfamiliar with a VE or who have cognitive
impairments, we replicated the findings from the original
studies. Specifically, we found general age-related declines
in navigation performance and additional specific
difficulties in tasks that required allocentric processes.
These findings demonstrate that our new tasks have task
demands similar to those of the original tasks, and are thus
suited to be used more widely.},
keywords = {Aging / Cognitive Aging / Humans / Learning /
Neuropsychological Tests / Spatial Navigation / Virtual
Reality},
cin = {AG Wolbers},
ddc = {150},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1310002},
pnm = {344 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF3-344)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-344},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:31236900},
pmc = {pmc:PMC7148270},
doi = {10.3758/s13428-019-01264-8},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/145093},
}