Perceptual learning and neural correlates of virtual navigation in subjective cognitive decline: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Spatial navigation deficits in age-related diseases involve brain changes affecting spatial memory and verbal cognition. Studies in blind and blindfolded individuals show that multisensory training can induce neuroplasticity through visual cortex recruitment. This proof-of-concept study introduces a digital navigation training protocol, integrating egocentric and allocentric strategies with multisensory stimulation and visual masking to enhance spatial cognition and brain connectivity in 17 individuals (mean age 57.2 years) with subjective cognitive decline. Results indicate improved spatial memory performance correlated with recruitment of the visual area 6-thalamic pathway and enhanced connectivity between memory, executive frontal areas, and default mode network (DMN) regions. Additiona

SUBMITTER: Amedi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634985 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature