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http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTENTIONAL FILTERING AND MEMORY PERFORMANCE IN VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT

Schmicker, M.DZNE* ; Mattke, S.DZNE* ; Menze, I.DZNE*

2022

ISBN: 978-989-53614-1-0

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.36315/2022inpact046

Abstract: Experimental research on cognition needs more realistic paradigms to achieve ecological validity as wellas to transfer and eventually generalize the results to clinical practice. Selective attention was found to behighly related to memory and training of attentional filtering enhanced memory performance. Moreover, areal memory room might provide a more interesting environment for cognitive training, even though it isvery demanding for the examiner to arrange the set-up. Therefore, we developed a change detection taskusing a virtual reality (VR) environment and compared it with one in a real environment (RE) room. Dataof healthy younger and older adults were analyzed regarding their memory and distractor inhibitionperformance. The results indicate that both test set-ups reveal age effects but only RE in younger adultsproduces a distractor effect. For younger adults, VR was found to be more challenging as compared to thereal room whereas OA performed similar in VR and RE. Technical development like VR becomes moreand more attractive to create interesting experimental test settings but their additional value needs to befurther investigated.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Clinical Neurophysiology and Memory (AG Düzel)

Research Program(s):

1. 353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) (POF4-353)

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