Application of Virtual Reality in Spatial Memory
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 23834
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Interests: spatial memory; virtual reality; hippocampus; gender differnces; aging
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Interests: individual differences; navigational memory; topographical memory; environmental memory; witnessing and reasoning
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2. San Raffaele Cassino Hospital, 03043 Cassino, Italy
Interests: spatial cognition; human navigation; individual differences; travel planning; topographic disorientation; emotions; creativity; neuropsychology
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the development of virtual reality technologies has impacted different scientific fields, including Neuroscience. Thanks to virtual reality-based tasks, assessments of human behaviour have been improved. Spatial memory, traditionally studied in animal models, has gained much attention since virtual tasks make possible the controlled assessment of human behaviour under many different experimental conditions.
In the last few years, many different spatial tasks and studies have been developed, focussing on several aspects that contribute to spatial orientation and its neural underpinnings. Pathologies and lifestyle, as well as age and gender, are reflected in spatial skills. In this context, we encourage researchers to provide papers that decipher the variables that could affect human spatial memory, from behavioural to neuroimaging studies.
Prof. Dr. Jose Manuel Cimadevilla
Dr. Raffaella Nori
Dr. Laura Piccardi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- spatial orientation
- navigation
- spatial strategies
- medial temporal lobe
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