{"pk":27757,"title":"The Applicability and Benefits of Virtual Reality for the Cognitive Sciences: The Case of Context-Dependent Memory","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Immersive virtual reality (VR) offers important benefits over\nnon-immersive displays, such as increased ecological validity\nand high experimental control. Studies in cognitive science\nusing immersive VR are however still rather limited in\nnumber. The current paper illustrates the opportunities to\napply VR in the cognitive sciences by using an immersive\nadaptation of a classic study by Godden and Baddeley (1975)\non environmental context-dependent memory (ECDM). In\nthis memory study, retrieval was facilitated when the context\nbetween learning and testing matched. In line with the\nliterature showing small effects for context-dependent recall,\nthe current study indicated a marginally significant ECDM\neffect for one virtual context, but when deep processing was\ncontrolled, a significant ECDM effect was obtained. In\ndemonstrating the applicability and benefits of immersive VR,\nthis study at last opens a doorway to the large-scale\nimplementation of immersive VR for the cognitive sciences.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"virtual reality"},{"word":"Immersive"},{"word":"learning strategies"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p15z4v0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tycho","middle_name":"T","last_name":"deBack","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Angelica","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Tinga","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Rens","middle_name":"","last_name":"vanHoef","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lancaster University","department":""},{"first_name":"Erwin","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Peters","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Max","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Louwerse","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27757/galley/17397/download/"}]}