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By measuring eye movements, researchers can map out what patients are looking at. Warm, red colors indicate that someone has been looking at this point for a long time. Blue means a shorter time spent looking.

With the help of a VR headset, researcher Tanja Nijboer is testing the virtual environment.

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Patients who have had a stroke, suffer from psychosis or have ALS often have difficulty coping in busy situations. A visit to the supermarket can be hard. The virtual supermarket offers a helping hand.

By Aafke Kok

People with one of these illnesses may, for example, experience difficulty finding products in a supermarket. In the virtual supermarket, researcher Tanja Nijboer slowly increases the busyness of the environment. How do patients adapt their strategies to a busier supermarket compared to the control group? The answer to this question may help in making diagnoses. Sometime in the future, Nijboer would like to use the virtual supermarket to adapt treatments to the specific problems that patients are dealing with.