Virtual reality tasks with eye tracking for mild spatial neglect assessment: a pilot study with acute stroke patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Increasing evidence shows that traditional neuropsychological tests are insensitive for detecting mild unilateral spatial neglect (USN), lack ecological validity, and are unable to clarify USN in all different spatial domains. Here we present a new, fully immersive virtual reality (VR) task battery with integrated eye tracking for mild visual USN and extinction assessment in the acute state of stroke to overthrow these limitations.

Methods

We included 11 right-sided stroke patients and 10 healthy controls aged 18-75 years. Three VR tasks named the Extinction, the Storage and the Shoot the target tasks were developed to assess USN. Furthermore, neuropsychological assessment examining various parts of cognitive functioning was conducted to measure general abilities.

SUBMITTER: Uimonen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10860750 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature