Assessing Human Spatial Navigation in a Virtual Space and its Sensitivity to ExerciseAlana J. Smith 1, Noor Tasnim 2, Zach Psaras 3, Daphne Gyamfi 4, Krishna Makani 4, Wendy A. Suzuki 3, Julia C. Basso 1,4,5
1School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, 2Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Tech, 3Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, 5Center for Health Behaviors Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Here, we present a novel, brief, and active spatial navigation task that assesses both spatial navigation and episodic memory ability. Importantly, spatial navigation and episodic memory were associated with one another, and this task demonstrated sensitivity to exercise.
