The Cognition & Virtual Reality Lab is located in O'Boyle Hall, Room G2. Our research projects focus on using virtual reality for spatial learning. Some of the questions we are curently exploring are:

• Does learning in VR result in spatial mental models that are qualitatively or quantitatively different from those resulting from learning using other representations?
• Does learning from VR result in improved transfer to real physical spaces?
• Does learning in VR result in greater retention, or reduced retraining?
• Does VR allow in greater cognitive flexibility with respect to spatial tasks?
• Can VR be used to develop more flexible spatial mental models?
• Does VR improve recall of spatial locations through reinstatement of context?

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