Development and validation of virtual reality-based Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Translations and adaptations of traditional neuropsychological tests to virtual reality (VR) technology bear the potential to increase their ecological validity since the technology enables simulating everyday life conditions in a controlled manner. The current paper describes our translation of a commonly used neuropsychological test to VR, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). For this aim, we developed a VR adaptation of the RAVLT (VR-RAVLT) Which is based on a conversation with a secretary in a virtual office using a fully immersive VR system. To validate the VR-RAVLT, we tested its construct validity, its age-related discriminant validity and its test-retest validity in reference to the original gold standard RAVLT (GS-RAVLT).

Method

Seventy-eight par

SUBMITTER: Gottlieb A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9519387 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature