ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018
Disentangling the Contribution of Spatial Reference Frames to Executive Functioning in Healthy and Pathological Aging: An Experimental Study with Virtual Reality.
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- Socio-demographic variables among a group of patients with cognitive decline.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Pre-protocol of the Virtual Spatial Configuration Task (VSCT): A Novel Virtual Reality-Based Tool for Assessing Cognitive Map Formation Abilities.Open research Europe · 2025Article
- Spatial Orientation Assessment in the Elderly: A Comprehensive Review of Current Tests.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Technological Solutions for Diagnosis, Management and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease-Related Symptoms: A Structured Review of the Recent Scientific Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Study of virtual reality for mild cognitive impairment: A bibliometric analysis using CiteSpace.International journal of nursing sciences · 2022Article
- Examining the Academic Trends in Neuropsychological Tests for Executive Functions Using Virtual Reality: Systematic Literature Review.JMIR serious games · 2021Review
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Abstract
A growing body of evidence pointed out that a decline in effectively using spatial reference frames for categorizing information occurs both in normal and pathological aging. Moreover, it is also known that executive deficits primarily characterize the cognitive profile of older individuals. Acknowledging this literature, the current study was aimed to specifically disentangle the contribution of the cognitive abilities related to the use of spatial reference frames to executive functioning in both healthy and pathological aging. 48 healthy elderly individuals and 52 elderly suffering from probable Alzheimer's Disease (AD) took part in the study. We exploited the potentiality of Virtual Reality to specifically measure the abilities in retrieving and syncing between different spatial reference frames, and then we administrated different neuropsychological tests for evaluating executive functions. Our results indicated that allocentric functions contributed significantly to the planning abilities, while syncing abilities influenced the attentional ones. The findings were discussed in terms of previous literature exploring relationships between cognitive deficits in the first phase of AD.
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