Development of a Virtual Reality Assessment of Everyday Living Skills

Ruse, Stacy A.; Davis, Vicki G.; Atkins, Alexandra S.; Krishnan, Kamini; Fox, Kolleen H.; Harvey, Philip D.; Keefe, Richard S.E.

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“…VR makes it possible to simulate realistic everyday life environments and related challenges, directly measuring ADL and outperforming the clinical predictive validity of traditional assessments (Tarnanas et al, 2013). VEs simulating IADL assessment have been developed for different levels of complexity, like kitchens (Allain et al, 2014; Besnard et al, 2016; Richard et al, 2010; Vallejo et al, 2017; Zhang et al, 2003), house rooms (Albani et al, 2002; Ruse et al, 2014), or external scenarios like streets and cities (Atkins et al, 2018; Seo et al, 2017), however, the convergent validity of these measures still need to be demonstrated.…”

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Virtual reality technology in neuropsychological testing: A systematic review

Pieri

Tosi

Romano

2023

Journal of Neuropsychology

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Neuropsychological testing aims to measure individuals' cognitive abilities (e.g. memory, attention), analysing their performance on specific behavioural tasks. Most neuropsychological tests are administered in the so-called 'paper-and-pencil' modality or via computerised protocols. The adequacy of these procedures has been recently questioned, with more specific concerns about their ecological validity, i.e. the relation between test scores observed in the laboratory setting and the actual everyday cognitive functioning. In developing more ecological tasks, researchers started to implement virtual reality (VR) technology as an administration technique focused on exposing individuals to simulated but realistic stimuli and environments, maintaining at the same time a controlled laboratory setting and collecting advanced measures of cognitive functioning. This systematic review aims to present how VR procedures for neuropsychological testing have been implemented in the last years. We initially explain the rationale for supporting VR as an advanced assessment tool, but we also discuss the challenges and risks that can limit the widespread implementation of this technology. Then, we systematised the large body of studies adopting VR for neuropsychological testing, describing the VR tools' distribution amongst different cognitive functions through a PRISMA-guided systematic review. The systematic review highlighted that only very few instruments are ready for clinical use, reporting psychometric proprieties (e.g. validity) and providing normative data. Most of the tools still need to be standardised on large cohorts of participants, having published only limited data on small samples up to now. Finally, we discussed the possible future directions of the VR neuropsychological test development linked to technological advances.

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Virtual reality technology in neuropsychological testing: A systematic review

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Romano

2023

Journal of Neuropsychology

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Methods for Delivering and Evaluating the Efficacy of Cognitive Enhancement

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Keefe

2015

Cognitive Enhancement

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Cognitive deficits are related to impaired everyday functioning in multiple conditions and in healthy individuals. Treatment of cognitive functioning can be facilitated through either pharmacological or remediation strategies. The critical goals of cognitive enhancement are to improve everyday functioning in multiple domains. This chapter describes the strategies that are most desirable for the treatment of cognitive impairments and detection of potential benefits of treatment in cognitive and functional domains. These strategies include the use of performance-based assessments of cognition and functioning and the appropriate use of observational strategies to detect changes. Finally, we define several outcome-related goals and discuss the practicality of their measurement.

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