Context conditioning in humans using commercially available immersive Virtual Reality.

ABSTRACT: Despite a wealth of knowledge on how humans and nonhuman animals learn to associate meaningful events with cues in the environment, far less is known about how humans learn to associate these events with the environment itself. Progress on understanding spatiotemporal contextual processes in humans has been slow in large measure by the methodological constraint of generating and manipulating immersive spatial environments in well-controlled laboratory settings. Fortunately, immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) technology has improved appreciably and affords a relatively straightforward methodology to investigate the role of context on learning, memory, and emotion while maintaining experimental control. Here, we review context conditioning literature in humans and describe challenges to study c

SUBMITTER: Kroes MCW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5561126 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature