ArticlePloS one2016
Aging and Sensory Substitution in a Virtual Navigation Task.
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- Learning to see again: biological constraints on cortical plasticity and the implications for sight restoration technologies.Journal of neural engineering · 2017Review
- Motor errors lead to enhanced performance in older adults.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Blindness enhances auditory obstacle circumvention: Assessing echolocation, sensory substitution, and visual-based navigation.PloS one · 2017Article
- Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2016Review
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Abstract
Virtual environments are becoming ubiquitous, and used in a variety of contexts-from entertainment to training and rehabilitation. Recently, technology for making them more accessible to blind or visually impaired users has been developed, by using sound to represent visual information. The ability of older individuals to interpret these cues has not yet been studied. In this experiment, we studied the effects of age and sensory modality (visual or auditory) on navigation through a virtual maze. We added a layer of complexity by conducting the experiment in a rotating room, in order to test the effect of the spatial bias induced by the rotation on performance. Results from 29 participants showed that with the auditory cues, it took participants a longer time to complete the mazes, they took a longer path length through the maze, they paused more, and had more collisions with the walls, compared to navigation with the visual cues. The older group took a longer time to complete the mazes, they paused more, and had more collisions with the walls, compared to the younger group. There was no effect of room rotation on the performance, nor were there any significant interactions among age, feedback modality and room rotation. We conclude that there is a decline in performance with age, and that while navigation with auditory cues is possible even at an old age, it presents more challenges than visual navigation.
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