Real-life memory and spatial navigation in patients with focal epilepsy: Ecological validity of a virtual reality supermarket task

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-66

  Grewe, P ^a,b   Lahr, D ^b   Kohsik, A ^a   Dyck, E ^a   Markowitsch, H J ^a   Bien, C G ^b   Botsch, M ^a   Piefke, M ^a,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological validity; Memory; Neuropsychology; Spatial navigation; Virtual reality; Visual spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SHOPPING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL-SPATIAL COGNITION;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REALITY TESTING; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84890626228     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.11.014     Document Type: Article

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