| Title: |
The 360° Mental Screening (MS-360°): A Screening Test for an Ecological Assessment of Everyday Cognitive Functioning |
| Authors: |
Pieri L.; Moro V.; Gambina G.; Facci E.; Amato S.; Romano D. |
| Contributors: |
Pieri, L; Moro, V; Gambina, G; Facci, E; Amato, S; Romano, D |
| Publisher Information: |
IT |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca: BOA (Bicocca Open Archive) |
| Subject Terms: |
neuropsychological assessment clinical neuropsychology virtual reality VR 360° video; Settore PSIC-01/B - Neuropsicologia e neuroscienze cognitive |
| Description: |
Background: Comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations are often time-consuming and may not be suitable for every situation. Screening tests represent a useful tool to detect the altered status of cognitive functioning briefly. However, the majority of currently available tools show low to moderate ecological validity, limiting their capability to detect real-life impairments. Virtual Reality (VR) technology emerged as a possible solution as it can simulate everyday tasks maintaining a standard setting in almost any possible situation. Many VR-based cognitive tests are now present in the literature, but their psychometric properties are rarely assessed. Objective: The project has two objectives: achieving incremental evidence toward the feasibility of using 360° photos and videos in the neuropsychological assessment and creating a screening test for a valid and reliable clinical application. Methods: We are developing a new screening test (The 360° Mental Screening - MS-360°) that, instead of using computer-generated environments as scenarios, employs 360° photos and videos to generate an innovative, highly immersive VR environment. This media can simulate real-life situations in a photorealistic fashion, providing ecological stimuli and recording meaningful behavioral measures. The MS-360° uses videos recorded with an omnidirectional camera (Insta360 One X) as virtual environments, which can be administered wirelessly using a portable head-mounted display (Oculus Quest 2) and a 5GHzWi-Fi network. The test consists of a set of 360° videos including fourteen different scenarios: in each of these, the participant is asked to perform some ecological tasks aimed to elicit specific cognitive functions. We quantified the accuracy in each specific task as a measure of outcome. We are studying two groups at the current stage: patients reporting subjective cognitive impairment recruited from the CEMS Memory Center of Verona and healthy controls matched for age and education. We analyze differences and correlations ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
ispartofbook:Book of abstracs 25th Annual International CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (CYPSY25); 25th annual international CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference; https://hdl.handle.net/10281/351305 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10281/351305 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.CC3E4292 |
| Database: |
BASE |