Abstract
In this study, we developed the Virtual Kitchen Protocol (VKP), a virtual reality-based measure of everyday memory functioning for meal preparation tasks. We investigated the construct validity of the VKP by comparing the performance of young adults (n = 41) and older adults without (n = 52) and with (n = 7) a neurocognitive diagnosis, as well as by examining correlations with standardized measures of verbal and visual memory. The results show that young adults had higher recall than older adults and that the VKP was sensitive to neurocognitive impairment among older adults. The VKP demonstrated moderate to high correlations with other memory tests. These results support the construct validity of the VKP and suggest that it holds promise as a virtual reality-based measure of memory for meal preparation tasks.
Description
Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
Publisher
MDPI
Date of publication
Spring 4-29-2021
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4341
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Barnett, Michael D.; Childers, Lucas G.; and Parsons, Thomas D., "A virtual kitchen protocol to measure everyday memory functioning for meal preparation" (2021). Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 7.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4341