EPELI: a novel virtual reality task for the assessment of goal-directed behavior in real-life contexts.

ABSTRACT: A recently developed virtual reality task, EPELI (Executive Performance in Everyday LIving), quantifies goal-directed behavior in naturalistic conditions. Participants navigate a virtual apartment, performing household chores given by a virtual character. EPELI aims to tap attention, executive function, and prospective memory. To ensure its applicability to further research and clinical work and to study its relationship to relevant background factors, we examined several key properties of EPELI in 77 typically developing 9-13-year-old children. These included EPELI's internal consistency, age and gender differences, sensitivity to gaming experience, head-mounted display (HMD) type, and verbal recall ability, as well as its relationships with parent-rated everyday executive problems. Of th

SUBMITTER: Seesjarvi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10366028 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature