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Multisensory integration for spatial orientation in trait anxiety subjects: absence of visual dependence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

I. Viaud-Delmon ,
A. Berthoz  and
R. Jouvent
I. Viaud-Delmon*
Affiliation:
CNRS UMR 7593, Pavillon Clérambault, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47, boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
A. Berthoz
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action, CNRS-Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
R. Jouvent
Affiliation:
CNRS UMR 7593, Pavillon Clérambault, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47, boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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*Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Viaud-Delmon).
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Summary

Studies suggest a greater reliance on visual information for maintaining balance in anxious subjects. Nevertheless, links between this supposed preferred visual processing and spatial orientation have not yet been evaluated. Two groups of subjects differing in their level of trait anxiety were formed. Equipped with a head-mounted visual display, they learned a virtual corridor using passive translation but active rotation, both with normal and with two different conflicting sensory conditions. After two visual navigation trials in the corridor, they were blindfolded and asked to reproduce the same trajectory from memory. In addition, subjects drew a map of the remembered corridor. Anxious subjects were comparable to non-anxious subjects when asked to reproduce the trajectory from memory, but exhibited a deficit when drawing a map of the corridor they were in. The results do not support the hypothesis that anxious subjects use preferentially one type of sensory cue over another for spatial orientation, but instead manifest difficulties in constructing more global representations of space.

Keywords

AnxietyMultisensory integrationNavigationSpatial memoryVirtual RealityHumans
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European Psychiatry , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , July 2002 , pp. 194 - 199
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Copyright © Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS 2002

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