Neuropsychological evaluation of memory with virtual reality: review of scope
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virtual reallity, clinical neuropsychology, memory, neuropsychological assesmentAbstract
Neuropsychological assessment of memory is traditionally performed using pencil and paper tests, which are sometimes very artificial compared to everyday life situations. Therefore, virtual reality is presented as an alternative to assess various cognitive processes in a more ecological way. The aim of this scoping review is to describe VR proposals to assess memory, the types of memory assessed, the type of VR used and finally to specify the correlations with traditional pencil and paper tests. The search results yield a total of 505 identified papers, Pubmed (24.36%), Science Direct (35.84%), Web of Science (45.94%), 33 papers are included. The results show that the type of virtual reality used in the different studies are: 60% used immersive Virtual Reality and 4.29% used Non-immersive Virtual Reality, the most used virtual environments for memory assessment with Virtual Reality are: supermarkets or stores 18.92%, the most frequent population in the studies are healthy subjects in 60%, acquired brain damage 17.14%, the correlation between classic evaluation tests with virtual reality tests shows that 34.29% of studies do not correlate the construct measured by Virtual Reality. The evaluation must gain in ecological validity to design interventions that impact the daily lives of the beneficiaries.
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