Abstract
Impairment of executive and memory functions was repeatedly observed in various neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. As the pharmacological treatment does not influence the deficit sufficiently, the significance of cognitive remediation increases in importance. The presented study introduces the virtual Supermarket Shopping Task (vSST), a novel method aimed at memory and executive functions, designed in ecologically valid environment. The results of the first pilot study showed significant difference in the performance between the males and females. In the second pilot, the difference between males and females was eliminated subsequently to adding other items besides groceries to the shopping list. The debriefing of participants pointed out the importance of elected encoding strategy. Considering adjustable parameters that allow us to increase the task difficulty and complexity, vSST represents potentially well-adjustable remediation method.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2017 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, ICVR 2017 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Publication date | 10 Aug 2017 |
Article number | 8007514 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509030538 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Aug 2017 |
Event | 2017 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, ICVR 2017 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 19 Jun 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 |
Conference
Conference | 2017 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, ICVR 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 19/06/2017 → 22/06/2017 |
Series | International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, ICVR |
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Volume | 2017-June |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:III. CONCLUSSION These findings support the idea of utilization vSST as remediation tool in patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, especially with SZ. It is in accordance with the previous studies using virtual shopping task [7]. A short debriefing with the ACKNOWLEDGMENT This study was supported by the projects Nr. LO1611 with a financial support from the MEYS under the NPU I program, and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under Project Contract no. MSMT-28477/2014, project 7F14236.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
Keywords
- cognitive deficit
- memory
- remediation
- strategies
- virtual reality