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Neurologically healthy individuals show rightward navigation biases, which are amplified by increased cognitive load in simulated environments. This suggests real-world navigation asymmetries generalize to virtual settings, aligning with pseudoneglect phenomena.

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  • Human Navigation

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  • Neurologically healthy individuals display attentional asymmetries, with preferential leftward attention in near space and rightward attention in far space.
  • These biases influence navigation, causing a tendency to deviate rightward when passing through apertures in real-world settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if real-world rightward navigation deviations occur in simulated environments.
  • To determine if cognitive load can exacerbate these rightward navigation biases.

Main Methods:

  • Participants navigated through a computer-based doorway under varying cognitive load conditions (baseline vs. auditory discrimination task).
  • Experiment 2 increased the auditory task difficulty to further manipulate cognitive load.

Main Results:

  • Rightward navigation biases were observed in both baseline and cognitive load conditions.
  • A significant exacerbation of rightward biases was found with increased cognitive load in Experiment 2.

Conclusions:

  • Real-world rightward navigation asymmetries generalize to simulated environments.
  • Cognitive load significantly influences and exacerbates these navigation biases, consistent with pseudoneglect phenomena.