Previous training reduces the execution time of visuo-spacial tasks in virtual environment

Submitted by Vitor Silverio Rodrigues (vitorsrodrigues@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2014-05-27T11:23:48Z No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-05-27T14:46:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 2-s2.0-77953375709.pdf: 296713 bytes, checksum: bdb5e4d27f6b38df809413e62e35d5e9 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-27T11:23:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-12-01 Objective. To evaluate the influence of previous adaptation to different computational environments in visuo-spacial tasks performance of healthy individuals. Method. Healthy volunteers (n = 30), 15 male, mean age 25.3 ± 3.3 years, were divided in three groups: the first group, considered control, was not adapted to the proposed environments; the second group was adapted to a closed environment (stable and expected), and the third group was adapted to an open environment A (unexpected). The proposed task was to go through two open environments B and C (maze). The dependent variables Time and Error were considered for the analysis. Results. It was observed that during the adaptation phase, in the Time variable, the groups presented a progressive improvement in the performance to each task (p = 0.0036). The group adapted in the A open environment, showed a tendency to be faster in the execution of B and C open environments tasks, than the group adapted in the closed environment (p = 0.068). Conclusion. The study suggests that subjects adapted to visuo-spacial tasks execution involving unknown and no guided situations, present a tendency to a better time performance in these tasks when compared to subjects adapted in fixed and guided situations. UNIBAN Universidade de Sorocaba USP FMRP UNESP UNISC Neurociências e Comportamento - USP Programa de Mestrado em Fisioterapia Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, São Paulo , R Francisca Júlia 618/11, 02403-011 São Paulo, SP UNESP UNISC