Summary:
In the virtual kitchen 42 healthy adult participants memorised a slew of ingredients from a recipe list. Once they finished checking their grocery list participants picked up their wallet and left the virtual kitchen. To test their executive functional load the researchers increased the number of ingredients and recipes to be memorised. This aligned with the researchers' prediction that participants' task performance would decrease as functional load increases which suggests that this VR assessment can effectively test executive functional load. Upon further analysis the researchers realised that participants were actually switching up their strategies as executive functional load increased..