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SUBMITTER: Daugherty AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4537448 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daugherty Ana M AM Yuan Peng P Dahle Cheryl L CL Bender Andrew R AR Yang Yiqin Y Raz Naftali N
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20140523 9
Studies of human navigation in virtual maze environments have consistently linked advanced age with greater distance traveled between the start and the goal and longer duration of the search. Observations of search path geometry suggest that routes taken by older adults may be unnecessarily complex and that excessive path complexity may be an indicator of cognitive difficulties experienced by older navigators. In a sample of healthy adults, we quantify search path complexity in a virtual Morris ...[more]