Investigating Cognitive Global Coordination in normal and autistic children using virtual reality environments - An EEG Study

Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the most prevalent interdisciplinary branches of technology where a human being can communicate with the components of virtual environment. It has been serving as a successful assistive technology for several disordered conditions. Children with neuro developmental disorders have the inadequacy to learn new things or adapt to changes in the environment. Although, there are various conventional techniques like flashcards, blackboard, parental care etc., available to train such children, VR has been found to bring promising outcomes in terms of behavior and learning. In this study, different virtual environments have been developed and experimented with a sample group of normal and autistic children to test the cognitive learning ability. Correspondingly, EEG signal acquisition and evaluation has been performed which showed significant improvement in their cognitive learning ability during VR therapy.