Egocentric and allocentric memory as assessed by virtual reality in individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 518-527

  Weniger, Godehard ^a   Ruhleder, Mirjana ^b   Lange, Claudia ^b   Wolf, Stefanie ^b   Irle, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D MRI; Inferior parietal cortex; Navigation; Precuneus; Virtual maze; Virtual park

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOCENTRIC MEMORY; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EGOCENTRIC MEMORY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUMETRY;

AFFECT; AGED; AMNESIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79551491103     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.031     Document Type: Article

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