Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan

Abstract Navigation ability is particularly sensitive to aging. Evidence of aging patterns is largely restricted to comparing young adults and elderly and limited in the variety of navigation tasks used. Therefore, we designed a novel task battery to assess navigation ability in a very large, repres...

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Autores principales:	Ineke J. M. van der Ham, Michiel H. G. Claessen, Andrea W. M. Evers, Milan N. A. van der Kuil
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2020
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:64c861755c084a07aa935eb5290afbf82021-12-02T11:02:17ZLarge-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan10.1038/s41598-020-60302-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/64c861755c084a07aa935eb5290afbf82020-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60302-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Navigation ability is particularly sensitive to aging. Evidence of aging patterns is largely restricted to comparing young adults and elderly and limited in the variety of navigation tasks used. Therefore, we designed a novel task battery to assess navigation ability in a very large, representative sample (N = 11,887, 8–100 years). The main aim was to measure navigation ability across the lifespan in a brief, yet comprehensive manner. Tasks included landmark knowledge, egocentric and allocentric location knowledge, and path knowledge for a route and survey perspective. Additionally, factors that potentially contribute to navigation ability were considered; gender, spatial experience and spatial anxiety. Increase in performance with age in children was found for allocentric location knowledge and for route-based path knowledge. Age related decline was found for all five tasks, each with clearly discernible aging patterns, substantiated the claim that each task distinctively contributes to the assessment of navigation ability. This study provides an in depth examination of navigation ability across dissociable functional domains and describes cognitive changes across the lifespan. The outcome supports the use of this task battery for brief assessment of navigation for experimental and clinical purposes.Ineke J. M. van der HamMichiel H. G. ClaessenAndrea W. M. EversMilan N. A. van der KuilNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020)
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description	Abstract Navigation ability is particularly sensitive to aging. Evidence of aging patterns is largely restricted to comparing young adults and elderly and limited in the variety of navigation tasks used. Therefore, we designed a novel task battery to assess navigation ability in a very large, representative sample (N = 11,887, 8–100 years). The main aim was to measure navigation ability across the lifespan in a brief, yet comprehensive manner. Tasks included landmark knowledge, egocentric and allocentric location knowledge, and path knowledge for a route and survey perspective. Additionally, factors that potentially contribute to navigation ability were considered; gender, spatial experience and spatial anxiety. Increase in performance with age in children was found for allocentric location knowledge and for route-based path knowledge. Age related decline was found for all five tasks, each with clearly discernible aging patterns, substantiated the claim that each task distinctively contributes to the assessment of navigation ability. This study provides an in depth examination of navigation ability across dissociable functional domains and describes cognitive changes across the lifespan. The outcome supports the use of this task battery for brief assessment of navigation for experimental and clinical purposes.
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author	Ineke J. M. van der Ham Michiel H. G. Claessen Andrea W. M. Evers Milan N. A. van der Kuil
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title	Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan
title_short	Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan
title_full	Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan
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Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan

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