%0 Journal Article %T Episodic Memory Assessment and Remediation in Normal and Pathological Aging Using Virtual Reality: A Mini Review %+ Institut de psychiatrie et neurosciences de Paris (IPNP - U1266 Inserm - Paris Descartes) %+ Université Paris Descartes – Institut de psychologie (UPD5 Psychologie) %+ Service de Neurologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière] %+ Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer [CHU Pitié-Salpétriêre] (IM2A) %+ Laboratoire Mémoire, Cerveau et Cognition (LMC2 (URP_7536)) %A La Corte, Valentina %A Sperduti, Marco %A Abichou, Kouloud %A Piolino, Pascale %< avec comité de lecture %J Frontiers in Psychology %I Frontiers Media %V 10 %8 2019-02-06 %D 2019 %R 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00173 %K episodic memory %K virtual reality %K assessment %K cognitive remediation %K aging %K Alzheimer’s disease %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology %Z Cognitive scienceJournal articles %X Life expectancy is constantly increasing in developed countries. Unfortunately, a longerlife does not always correspond to a healthier life, as even normal aging is associatedwith cognitive decline and increased risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases.Episodic memory (EM) is one of the most vulnerable cognitive functions in aging,and its decline is the hallmark of typical Alzheimer’s disease. This memory systemis defined as the ability to acquire and recollect personally experienced episodesassociated with a specific affective, spatial, and temporal context. However, most of theneuropsychological and experimental tasks currently employed to assess EM consistin learning simple material (e.g., list of words) in highly stereotyped contexts. In thesame vein, classical paper-and-pencil or numeric remediation tools have shown theirlimitations in the transfer of acquired skills to daily life. Virtual reality (VR), thanks to itsimmersive properties, and the possibility of delivering realistic and complex scenarios,seems a promising tool to address the limitations of the assessment and remediation ofEM. Here, we review existing studies employing VR in normal and pathological agingto assess and reeducate EM. Overall, we show that VR has been mainly used vianon-immersive systems. Further studies should, therefore, test the impact of differentdegrees of immersion. Moreover, there is a lack of VR remediation tools specificallytargeting EM. We propose that future studies should fill this gap, addressing in particularthe adaptivity of VR remediation protocols. %G English %2 https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-04025200/document %2 https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-04025200/file/fpsyg-10-00173.pdf %L hal-04025200 %U https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-04025200 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS5 %~ APHP %~ USPC %~ SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE %~ SORBONNE-UNIV %~ SU-MEDECINE %~ SU-MED %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UP-SANTE %~ UP-SOCIETES-HUMANITES %~ SU-TI %~ ALLIANCE-SU %~ LMC2