Improved spatial memory for physical versus virtual navigation

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RIV/68407700:21730/25:00388300

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ade6aa" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ade6aa</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ade6aa" target="_blank" >10.1088/1741-2552/ade6aa</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Improved spatial memory for physical versus virtual navigation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Objective. Virtual reality (VR) has become a key tool for researching spatial memory. Virtual environments offer many advantages for research in terms of logistics, neuroimaging compatibility etc. However, it is well established in animal models that the lack of physical movement in VR impairs some neural representations of space, and this is considered likely to be true in humans as well. Furthermore, it is unclear how big the disruptive effect stationary navigation is-how much does physical movement during encoding and recall affect human spatial memory and representations of space? What effect does the fatigue of actually walking during tasks have on participants-will physical movement decrease performance, or increase perception of difficulty? Approach. We utilize Augmented reality (AR) to enable participants to perform a spatial memory task while physically moving in the real world, compared to a matched VR task performed while stationary. Our task was performed by a group of healthy participants, by a group of stationary epilepsy patients, as they represent the population from which invasive human spatial signals are typically collected, and, in a case study, by a mobile epilepsy patient with an investigational chronic neural implant (Medtronic Summit RC + STM) streaming real-time continuous hippocampal local field potential data. Main results. Participants showed good performance in both conditions, but reported that the walking condition was significantly easier, more immersive, and more fun than the stationary condition. Importantly, memory performance was significantly better in walking vs. stationary in all groups, including epilepsy patients. We also found evidence for an increase in the amplitude of the theta oscillations associated with movement during the walking condition. Significance. Our findings highlight the importance of paradigms that include physical movement and suggest that integrating AR with movement in real environments can lead to improved techniques for spatial memory research.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Improved spatial memory for physical versus virtual navigation

Popis výsledku anglicky

Objective. Virtual reality (VR) has become a key tool for researching spatial memory. Virtual environments offer many advantages for research in terms of logistics, neuroimaging compatibility etc. However, it is well established in animal models that the lack of physical movement in VR impairs some neural representations of space, and this is considered likely to be true in humans as well. Furthermore, it is unclear how big the disruptive effect stationary navigation is-how much does physical movement during encoding and recall affect human spatial memory and representations of space? What effect does the fatigue of actually walking during tasks have on participants-will physical movement decrease performance, or increase perception of difficulty? Approach. We utilize Augmented reality (AR) to enable participants to perform a spatial memory task while physically moving in the real world, compared to a matched VR task performed while stationary. Our task was performed by a group of healthy participants, by a group of stationary epilepsy patients, as they represent the population from which invasive human spatial signals are typically collected, and, in a case study, by a mobile epilepsy patient with an investigational chronic neural implant (Medtronic Summit RC + STM) streaming real-time continuous hippocampal local field potential data. Main results. Participants showed good performance in both conditions, but reported that the walking condition was significantly easier, more immersive, and more fun than the stationary condition. Importantly, memory performance was significantly better in walking vs. stationary in all groups, including epilepsy patients. We also found evidence for an increase in the amplitude of the theta oscillations associated with movement during the walking condition. Significance. Our findings highlight the importance of paradigms that include physical movement and suggest that integrating AR with movement in real environments can lead to improved techniques for spatial memory research.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

20601 - Medical engineering

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Neural Engineering

ISSN

1741-2560

e-ISSN

1741-2552

Svazek periodika

22

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

001526653100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105010563559