Virtual reality (VR) is changing how scientists study memory, and it involves exploring virtual mazes. At UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute, cognitive neuroscience leader Professor Jason Mattingley, PhD student Richard Ronayne, and research assistant Jayce Rushton are conducting VR experiments that they hope will be adopted in clinical settings to test people’s navigational and spatial memory.  

In part two of this two-part series, our guests discuss:

• The challenge of using VR when conducting experiments
• Participants’ reactions to trying the VR memory test
• Building a virtual maze to test memory
• How VR can be used in a clinical setting
• Why VR could help people struggling with memory loss

Related papers and resources 

Interpreting memory