An Early Prediction on Mild Cognitive Impairment using Point-to-point Reaching Task in a Virtual Reality

In this study, MMSE-K and a PTP reaching task in a VR space were conducted on groups of university students and senior citizens to find out the relationship between cognitive and motor performance indices. During controller-visible task, while seniors with relatively high MMSE-K scores (above 24) have shown no statistical difference with university students in terms of final position errors, seniors with low survey scores have shown significantly greater errors. Therefore, we observed cognitive functions are closely related with motor functions and spatial perception, so we expect that VR PTP reaching task would help early predictions on mild cognitive impairment.