This journal relates to effects of active navigation and age on episodic memory published in the British Journal of Psychology. According to this journal, Episodic Memory (EM) decline with aging, and this is the main disabling consequence on the primary functions of memory needed to efficiently perform different activities in everyday life. These practices include such experiences as the location of personal items at one's residence (Hélène Sauzéon et al., 2015). Cognitive functions and memory in everyday life are intermingled with actions. Based on this study, sensorimotor in older adults is critical to memory performance and learning for understanding the functions of memory in everyday life. The journal investigates the effects of aging on Episodic Memory in a natural situation and how information on sensorimotor modulate effects of aging through active navigation.
In neuropsychology, it is very crucial and of great importance to understand information on the sensorimotor process and interaction with cognitive processing regarding cognitive aging. The author argued that the use of VR technology enabled the understanding of this interaction in an ecological way. This journal focused on spatial memory, and some authors were having an interest in objects of memory. However, studies observed that there are conflicting results for both object and spatial memory. Spatial domain effects of active navigation were reported in this study (Hélène Sauzéon et al., 2015). On the other hand, there is increased performance that was reported under active navigation circumstances. In this journal study, young subjects either passively or actively visited an apartment of two versions of rooms, and they encountered explicit objects told to memorize for a memory test. Multi-trial free recall procedure was used to assess EM processes on these texts. This method was used to measure learning processes and proactive interference.
Later, it administered delayed yes, or no recognition task for credit assessment hits and false recognition (Hélène Sauzéon et al., 2015). Finally, these results were interpreted by the author in the light of the hypothesis in which active navigation was viewed as an effect of enactment promoting a particular item at encoding.
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Hélène Sauzéon, Bernard N'Kaoua, Prashant Arvind Pala, Mathieu Taillade and Pascal Guitton (2015). Age and active navigation effects on episodic memory: A virtual reality study
