Older Adults Show Less Flexible Spatial Cue Use When Navigating in a Virtual Reality Environment Compared With Younger Adults.
Spatial cognition
aging
geometry
landmarks
navigation
virtual reality
Journal
Neuroscience insights
ISSN: 2633-1055
Titre abrégé: Neurosci Insights
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101760670
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
29
05
2019
accepted:
02
12
2019
entrez:
5
5
2020
pubmed:
5
5
2020
medline:
5
5
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Daily life requires accurate navigation, and thus better understanding of aging on navigational abilities is critical. Importantly, the use of spatial properties by older and younger adults remains unclear. During this study, younger and older human adults were presented with a virtual environment in which they had to navigate a series of hallways. The hallways provided 2 general types of spatial information: geometric, which included distance and directional turns along a learned route, and featural, which included landmarks situated along the route. To investigate how participants used these different cue types, geometric and/or landmark information was manipulated during testing trials. Data from 40 younger (20 women) and 40 older (20 women) adults were analyzed. Our findings suggest that (1) both younger and older adults relied mostly on landmarks to find their way, and (2) younger adults were better able to adapt to spatial changes to the environment compared with older adults.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32363348
doi: 10.1177/2633105519896803
pii: 10.1177_2633105519896803
pmc: PMC7176399
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
2633105519896803Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2019.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Conflicting Interests:The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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