Design of a virtual reality navigational (VRN) experiment for assessment of egocentric spatial cognition

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4812-4815

  Byagowi, Ahmad ^a   Moussavi, Zahra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUBIC BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; HUMAN BRAIN FUNCTIONS; HUMAN NAVIGATION; LEARNING EFFECTS; OBJECT TO OBJECTS; PERFORMANCE ERROR; PSEUDORANDOM SEQUENCES; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SHORTEST DISTANCE; SHORTEST PATH; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

BRAIN; NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870787495     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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