OpenMaze: An open-source toolbox for creating virtual navigation experiments

K Alsbury-Nealy, H Wang, C Howarth… - Behavior Research …, 2022 - Springer
Incorporating 3D virtual environments into psychological experiments offers an innovative
solution for balancing experimental control and ecological validity. Their flexible application …

The design, experiment, analyse, and reproduce principle for experimentation in virtual reality

J Grübel - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Conducting experiments in virtual reality (VR) requires a complex setup of hardware,
software, experiment design and implementation, and data collection which is supported by …

Sha** the future of creative education: the transformative power of VR in art and design learning

GM Serna-Mendiburu, CR Guerra-Tamez - Frontiers in Education, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Addressing a critical gap in the understanding of virtual reality (VR) in education, this study
develops and validates a predictive model to elucidate the influence of usability and spatial …

Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of heading direction

SK Harootonian, AD Ekstrom… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Successful navigation requires the ability to compute one's location and heading from
incoming multisensory information. Previous work has shown that this multisensory input …

A virtual reality paradigm with dynamic scene stimuli for use in memory research

NS Okada, KL McNeely-White, AM Cleary… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Episodic memory may essentially be memory for one's place within a temporally unfolding
scene from a first-person perspective. Given this, pervasively used static stimuli may only …

Age differences in spatial memory are mitigated during naturalistic navigation

PF Hill, S Bermudez, AS McAvan… - Aging …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Spatial navigation deficits are often observed among older adults on tasks that require
navigating virtual reality (VR) environments on a computer screen. We investigated whether …

Experiments as Code and its application to VR studies in human-building interaction

L Aguilar, M Gath-Morad, J Grübel, J Ermatinger… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Experiments as Code (ExaC) is a concept for reproducible, auditable, debuggable,
reusable, & scalable experiments. Experiments are a crucial tool to understand Human …

Virtual reality for spatial navigation

S Jeung, C Hilton, T Berg, L Gehrke… - Virtual Reality in …, 2022 - Springer
Immersive virtual reality (VR) allows its users to experience physical space in a non-physical
world. It has developed into a powerful research tool to investigate the neural basis of …

Frontal-midline theta and posterior alpha oscillations index early processing of spatial representations during active navigation

YK Du, M Liang, AS McAvan, RC Wilson, AD Ekstrom - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous research has demonstrated that humans combine multiple sources of spatial
information such as self-motion and landmark cues while navigating through an …

Largely intact memory for spatial locations during navigation in an individual with dense amnesia

AS McAvan, AA Wank, SZ Rapcsak, MD Grilli… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatial navigation and event memory (termed episodic memory) are thought to be heavily
intertwined, both in terms of their cognitive processes and underlying neural systems. Some …