Gallery of Memories (Ga-Me), a Novel VR Tool for the Study of Spatial Memory

For the vast majority of spatial navigation research, experimental tasks were relegated to real-world environments. In recent decades an increasing trend towards virtual environments in spatial navigation research has emerged, which provides several benefits compared to their real-world counterparts, while also having certain limitations. With these properties in mind, we have developed a customizable virtual Gallery task that is apt for the assessment of both spatial navigation and memory within a highly controlled three-dimensional environment.