Improvement of Navigation and Representation in Virtual Reality after Prism Adaptation in Neglect Patients.

ABSTRACT: Prism adaptation (PA) is responsible for an expansion of sensori-motor after-effects to cognitive domains for patients with spatial neglect. One important question is whether the cognitive after-effects induced by PA may also concern higher aspects of spatial cognition, such as navigation and topographic memory, which are critical in everyday life. The aim of this study was to assess whether multiple sessions of right PA can affect navigation and topographic memory. Seven right brain-damaged (RBD) patients with chronic neglect were included. We used a virtual supermarket named VAP-S which is an original paradigm, similar to the "shopping list test" during which patients had to purchase items from a list of eight products. Furthermore, in order to assess generalization of PA effects on cons

SUBMITTER: Glize B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5701812 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature