A Systematic Review on Cognitive Tasks Based on Virtual Reality for Assessing Episodic Memory of Older Adults (노인의 일화기억 평가를 위한 가상현실 기반의 인지과제에 대한 체계적 고찰)

Lee， Ji-Yeong (이지영); Jin-Hyuck Park (박진혁)

doi:10.14519/kjot.2020.28.1.07

A Systematic Review on Cognitive Tasks Based on Virtual Reality for Assessing Episodic Memory of Older Adults

Korean Journal of Occupational Therapy
Abbr : Korean J of Occup Ther
2020, 28(1), pp.95-108
DOI : 10.14519/kjot.2020.28.1.07
Publisher : Korean Society Of Occupational Therapy
Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Working Therapeutics
Received : July 29, 2019
Accepted : December 2, 2019
Published : March 30, 2020

Lee， Ji-Yeong ¹, Jin-Hyuck Park ²

¹순천향대학교 일반대학원 의료과학과
²순천향대학교

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to systematically review cognitive tasks based on virtual reality to assessthe episodic memory of older adults. Methods: Previous studies published in electrical databases between 2010 and 2019 were searched. The key termsused in the search were ‘Virtual’ OR ‘Virtual Reality’ AND ‘Episodic memory’ OR ‘Autobiographical memory’ OR‘Memory’ AND ‘Elderly’ OR ‘Older’. Finally, eight papers were selected for analysis. Results: The evidence described in the eight papers was from levels Ⅰ(50.0%) and Ⅱ(50.0%), suggesting that theevidence level of the papers was high. Younger adults, older adults, and the elderly with a mild cognitiveimpairment (MCI) or Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were recruited to investigate declines in episodic memory bynormal or pathological aging. Virtual reality environments were mainly divided into outdoor or indoor environments. Participants were asked to recall what, where, and when they had information encoded in the environment. As theresults indicate, there were significant differences in memory regarding where and when information was providedbased on normal and pathological aging. Conclusions: It was confirmed that the memory of where and when information was provided were affected moreby normal and pathological aging than the memory of what information was provided. In the future, throughcognitive tasks related with occupation in virtual reality environments, it is necessary to assess all sub-elementsof episodic memory and conduct cognitive training using such results.

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Episodic memory, Older adults, Normal aging, Pathological aging, Systematic review

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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