Journal
BRAIN SCIENCES
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050571
Keywords
activities of daily living; instrumental activities of daily living; computer use; older adults; verbal memory; visual memory; video games; serious games
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- University of Texas at Tyler New Faculty Grant
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The study developed the Virtual Kitchen Protocol (VKP), a virtual reality-based measure for everyday memory functioning in meal preparation tasks. Results showed that VKP was sensitive to neurocognitive impairment in older adults and had moderate to high correlations with other memory tests.
In this study, we developed the Virtual Kitchen Protocol (VKP), a virtual reality-based measure of everyday memory functioning for meal preparation tasks. We investigated the construct validity of the VKP by comparing the performance of young adults (n = 41) and older adults without (n = 52) and with (n = 7) a neurocognitive diagnosis, as well as by examining correlations with standardized measures of verbal and visual memory. The results show that young adults had higher recall than older adults and that the VKP was sensitive to neurocognitive impairment among older adults. The VKP demonstrated moderate to high correlations with other memory tests. These results support the construct validity of the VKP and suggest that it holds promise as a virtual reality-based measure of memory for meal preparation tasks.
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