ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2019
Virtual Enactment Effect on Memory in Young and Aged Populations: a Systematic Review.
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- Egocentric and Allocentric Spatial Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Real-World and Virtual Navigation Tasks: A Systematic Review.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2021Pooled it
- Usability Issues of Clinical and Research Applications of Virtual Reality in Older People: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
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- The Influence of Varying Degrees of Enactability on the Enactment Effect in Action Memory During the Encoding and Retrieval Stages: A Study with Healthy Young Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role of reactivations during consolidation in the structure and accessibility of episodic autobiographical memories.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Feasibility of Immersive Virtual Reality for Delivering Semantic Feature Analysis to Adults with Communication Disorders and Normal Cognitive Aging.International journal of telerehabilitation · 2026Article
- Decoding episodic autobiographical memory in naturalistic virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Behavioral Disorders of Spatial Cognition in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Alzheimer's Disease (The BDSC-MCI Project): Ecological Validity of the Corsi Learning Suvra-Span Test.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- The use of virtual reality as a perspective-taking manipulation to improve self-awareness in Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- Embodied Spatial Navigation Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Proof-of-Concept Trial.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Article
- Bodily and Visual-Cognitive Navigation Aids to Enhance Spatial Recall in Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Article
- Influence of Hand Tracking in Immersive Virtual Reality for Memory Assessment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Usability of an Embodied CAVE System for Spatial Navigation Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Enhancing spatial navigation skills in mild cognitive impairment patients: a usability study of a new version of ANTaging software.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Contribution of cognitive and bodily navigation cues to egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in hallucinations due to Parkinson's disease: A case report.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Building Embodied Spaces for Spatial Memory Neurorehabilitation with Virtual Reality in Normal and Pathological Aging.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Telemedicine and Virtual Reality at Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview for Future Perspectives in Neurorehabilitation.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Virtual Reality in the Assessment, Understanding and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Executive Functions Are Associated with Fall Risk but not Balance in Chronic Cerebrovascular Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Using More Ecological Paradigms to Investigate Working Memory: Strengths, Limitations and Recommendations.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSpatial cognition is a critical aspect of episodic memory, as it provides the scaffold for events and enables successful retrieval. Virtual enactment (sensorimotor and cognitive interaction) by means of input devices within virtual environments provides an excellent opportunity to enhance encoding and to support memory retrieval with useful traces in the brain compared to passive observation.
methodsWe conducted a systematic review with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines concerning the virtual enactment effect on spatial and episodic memory in young and aged populations. We aim at giving guidelines for virtual enactment studies, especially in the context of aging, where spatial and episodic memory decline.
resultsOur findings reveal a positive effect on spatial and episodic memory in the young population and promising outcomes in aging. Several cognitive factors (e.g., executive function, decision-making, and visual components) mediate memory performances. Findings should be taken into account for future interventions in aging.
conclusionsThe present review sheds light on the key role of the sensorimotor and cognitive systems for memory rehabilitation by means of a more ecological tool such as virtual reality and stresses the importance of the body for cognition, endorsing the view of an embodied mind.
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