Immersive Virtual Reality and Complex Skill Learning: Transfer Effects After Training in Younger and Older Adults

This study investigated the efficacy of training a complex skill within an immersive virtual environment. We constructed sensorimotor workstation task and trained participants to operate it with either non-interactive (text, video) method or equivalent workstation. Our results indicate that reality had significantly higher accuracy produced fewer timeouts in than those using methods, demonstrating successful transfer skills between real world. Further, comparing younger older adults their performance, we found did not differ ability benefit from training, extent this was affected by existing cognitive deficits (as measured Operation Span AX-Continuous Performance tasks). These findings suggest technologies can find application wide range contexts across diverse age groups.