11 - City Recollection

11 - City Recollection


Associated contents

  • Cities (collection of immersive videos)


Procedure

General Instructions:
  1. While the video plays, the therapist instructs the participants to stay focused on the scene.
  2. After a reasonable time at the therapist’s discretion, the video is paused.
  3. The participants are asked one at a time to remember the details mentioned by the therapist.
  4. After attempting to answer all the questions, the therapist plays the video a second time and asks the questions again, this time to be answered and completed as a group.
  5. The video can be paused at will to give sufficient time for the participants to spot, remember and formulate the answers.
Variation 1 - Detail Recollection
  1. The therapist names visual details as they appear in the video.
  2. The participants are asked to remember and repeat the details.
Variation 2 - Story Recollection
  1. The therapist makes up a background story for the person or persons appearing in the video. 
  2. The participants are asked to remember and repeat the stories.
Variation 3 - Memory and Creativity
  1. The participants are asked to make up facts about the persons appearing in the video: name, age, profession, nationality, mood.

See examples of questions in the attached document.


Benefits

  • Attention

  • Level of cognition

  • Imagination

  • Declarative memory