Enhancing Behavior and Brain Response to Visual Targets Using a Computer Game

Yale University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02118649

14-10788

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will play a computer game that is controlled by their gaze patterns and designed to direct attention their attention to specific on-screen targets. Visual attention to targets will be rewarded. Both visual behavior and brain response will be recorded during game play.

It is hypothesized that that, over the course of the game, relative to baseline, participants will show (a) increased looking to targets, (b) decreased response time to targets, and (c) enhanced, more efficient neural response to visual cues. It is hypothesized that clinical variability will associate with visual attention and brain response.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to participate in an eye-tracking experiment
• Able to participate in an EEG experiment

Exclusion criteria

• Sensory or physical impairment that would preclude completion of protocol
• Participants taking prescription medications that may affect cognitive processes
• Participants reporting significant head trauma or history of seizures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Game

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will play a video game directing their gaze to on-screen targets.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Game