ArticleJournal of attention disorders2022
Quantifying ADHD Symptoms in Open-Ended Everyday Life Contexts With a New Virtual Reality Task.
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- Effectiveness and User Experience of Immersive Virtual Reality in Cognitive Rehabilitation for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- IAmHero: Preliminary Findings of an Experimental Study to Evaluate the Statistical Significance of an Intervention for ADHD Conducted through the Use of Serious Games in Virtual Reality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Exploring Cognitive Functions Through Virtual Reality: a Systematic Review of Ecologically Valid Assessments.Neuropsychology review · 2026Review
- Acceptance of virtual reality to promote attention orientation in children: a qualitative study among children with ADHD and neurotypical development.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- A naturalistic virtual reality task reveals difficulties in time-based prospective memory and strategic time-monitoring in children with ADHD.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually real classroom.eLife · 2025Article
- Real-world goal-directed behavior reveals aberrant functional brain connectivity in children with ADHD.PloS one · 2025Article
- A Study of the Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Sports Games on Improving Executive and Cognitive Functions in Minors with ADHD-A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Concurrent Validity of Virtual Reality-Based Assessment of Executive Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Review
- Fluctuations of Attention During Self-paced Naturalistic Goal-Directed Behavior in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.JAACAP open · 2024Article
- Enhancing Ecological Validity: Virtual Reality Assessment of Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with ADHD.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Measuring attention of ADHD patients by means of a computer game featuring biometrical data gathering.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Spontaneous memory strategies in a videogame simulating everyday memory tasks.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Exploring the steps of learning: computational modeling of initiatory-actions among individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Current virtual reality-based rehabilitation interventions in neuro-developmental disorders at developmental ages.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Digital assessments for children and adolescents with ADHD: a scoping review.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Diagnosis of ADHD using virtual reality and artificial intelligence: an exploratory study of clinical applications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Virtual reality tasks with eye tracking for mild spatial neglect assessment: a pilot study with acute stroke patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- EPELI: a novel virtual reality task for the assessment of goal-directed behavior in real-life contexts.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Assessment of goal-directed behavior and prospective memory in adult ADHD with an online 3D videogame simulating everyday tasks.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo quantify goal-directed behavior and ADHD symptoms in naturalistic conditions, we developed a virtual reality task, EPELI (Executive Performance in Everyday LIving), and tested its predictive, discriminant and concurrent validity.
methodWe collected EPELI data, conventional neuropsychological task data, and parent-ratings of executive problems and symptoms in 38 ADHD children and 38 typically developing controls.
resultsEPELI showed predictive validity as the ADHD group exhibited higher percentage of irrelevant actions reflecting lower attentional-executive efficacy and more controller movements and total game actions, both indicative of hyperactivity-impulsivity. Further, the five combined EPELI measures showed excellent discriminant validity (area under curve 88 %), while the correlations of the EPELI efficacy measure with parent-rated executive problems (
conclusionWe provide a proof-of-concept validation for a new virtual reality tool for ecologically valid assessment of ADHD symptoms.
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