Courbois, Y;
Farran, EK;
Lemahieu, A;
Blades, M;
Mengue-Topio, H;
Sockeel, P;
(2013)
Wayfinding behaviour in Down syndrome: a study with virtual environments.
Research in Developmental Disabilities
, 34
(5)
pp. 1825-1831.
10.1016/j.ridd.2013.02.023.
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess wayfinding abilities in individuals with Down syndrome (DS). The ability to learn routes though a virtual environment (VE) and to make a novel shortcut between two locations was assessed in individuals with DS (N=10) and control participants individually matched on mental age (MA) or chronological age (CA). The results showed that most of the participants with DS were able to learn routes through the VE, even though they needed more trials than the CA controls to reach the learning criterion. However, they did not show flexible wayfinding behaviour because they were unable to find a shortcut between two known locations (unlike the CA controls). The results suggest that most individuals with DS can acquire knowledge about specific routes, but are unable to integrate that knowledge into a configurational understanding of the environment.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Wayfinding behaviour in Down syndrome: a study with virtual environments |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.02.023 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.02.023 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. |
| Keywords: | Adolescent, Adult, Comprehension, Down Syndrome, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Memory, Space Perception, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy, Young Adult |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475088 |
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