Navigational Skills
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Development of an Audio-based Virtual Gaming Environment to Assist with Navigation Skills in the Blind
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2013
Audio-based Environment Simulator (AbES) is virtual environment software designed to improve real world navigation skills in the blind.
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Practical Methodology of Cognitive Tasks Within a Navigational Assessment
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Children who have complex communication needs can benefit from the use of a speech-generating device (SGD). Cognitive skills were identified as having an impact on the ability to navigate between levels of SGDs. This protocol describes the steps needed for Speech-language Pathologists to assess cognitive skills and navigational abilities.
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Scientific Measurement and Lab Skills - Concepts
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2020
Two-Dimensional Graphs Some chemistry experiments take the form of directly changing one property of the system that you are studying otherwise known as the independent variable, like temperature, and measuring the effects on another property, otherwise known as the dependent variable, like volume. Once the data have been collected, the interaction between the two parameters must be quantified — or converted into a form that can be evaluated — and compared to other relationships.
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Using Virtual Reality to Transfer Motor Skill Knowledge from One Hand to Another
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2017
We describe a novel virtual-reality based setup which exploits voluntary control of one hand to improve motor-skill performance in the other (non-trained) hand. This is achieved by providing real-time movement-based sensory feedback as if the non-trained hand is moving. This new approach may be used to enhance rehabilitation of patients with unilateral hemiparesis.
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Development of a Virtual Reality Assessment of Everyday Living Skills
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2014
A challenge for proving treatment efficacy for cognitive impairments in schizophrenia is finding the optimizing measurement of skills related to everyday functioning. The Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT) is an interactive gaming based computerized measure aimed at skills associated with everyday functioning, including baseline impairments and treatment related changes.
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Path integration provides an estimate of current position by using movement-related information, while visual landmarks can anchor that estimate to recognizable features in the environment. Combining both sources helps an individual maintain a route when immediate sensory cues change or when a goal must be reached across unfamiliar portions of a setting. In behavior research, this reveals how spatial information guides movement.
Optic flow supplies visual information about the pattern of environmental movement during travel, whereas proprioception provides information linked to the body's own movement. Along with environmental gradients, these cues contribute to estimating location and selecting movement directions. Studying their contributions helps explain how sensory systems support route choice, hazard avoidance, and goal-directed behavior.
Memory allows previously encountered spatial information to contribute to later decisions, while sensory integration combines landmarks, gradients, optic flow, and proprioception into a position estimate. Their interaction connects environmental input with route selection and movement. This is important because navigation is not only sensing surroundings; it also requires using available information to guide behavior toward a goal.
Because species occupy different environments, the sensory cues available for navigation may differ in importance. Research across diverse species can therefore examine how visual landmarks, environmental gradients, proprioception, optic flow, memory, and path integration are combined to support movement. This comparative perspective connects navigation with foraging, migration, homing, territory use, and hazard avoidance.
Behavioral research on navigational skills focuses on the link between spatial information and action. Investigators can consider sensory inputs such as landmarks and gradients, internal estimates from path integration, memory, route selection, and resulting movement. Examining these elements together helps reveal how nervous systems convert information about location into goal-directed behavior.
Navigational skills support several behaviorally important activities, including finding resources while foraging, traveling during migration, returning during homing, using a territory, and avoiding hazards. These examples show that navigation is not limited to reaching a single destination. It also helps organisms organize movement around survival-related goals and changing environmental demands.
Research on navigational skills can inform autonomous navigation systems because it identifies ways spatial information can be connected to decisions and movement. Biological examples highlight the value of combining landmarks, gradients, optic flow, proprioception, memory, and path integration when estimating position and choosing routes. This creates a behavioral context for studying navigation beyond animal movement alone.