Cybersickness imAgiNg Olfactory Evocation (CANOE)

Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy

Treatments

Device: Functional MRI

Other: Virtual Reality: control

Other: Virtual Reality: experimental

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05308433

2021-A02854-37

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to, using fMRI, compare brain activations during olfactory imagery induced by different visual supports (words, pictures, colors and colored arrangements) in healthy subjects.

This will allow us to choose the best olfactory imagery facilitator and to assess its effect on cybersickness.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 50 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

to be of French nationality who has always lived in metropolitan France;
to be right-handed person;
to be enrolled in a social security plan;
to be able to understand the instructions given;
to have underwent a pre-inclusion medical examination;
to give a written consent;
Person with a strong capacity for olfactory imagination: having obtained a score strictly below 2.5 on the fVOIQ olfactory imagination questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

to have an inability to read French;
to be recognized as a synesthete;
to have a professional activity requires intense olfactory activity;
to have a partial or total loss of smell (hyposmia, anosmia);
to have qualitative smell disorders (carcosomia, hyperosmia, phantosmia, parosmia);
to have smell disorders of neurological, post-traumatic or neurodegenerative origin;
to have uncorrected or poorly corrected visual disturbances;
to have vestibular disorder diagnosed;
any contraindication to MR examination (active medical device, ferromagnetic foreign body, pregnancy, morbid obesity, claustrophobia, ... );
subject under a measure of legal protection.