Memory and Attention in Healthy Children (MASK)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Other: Experience 1 : Auditory and Visual Discrimination; Other: Experience 4 : Attention and Distractibility; Other: Experience 3 : Visual Attention Training; Other: Experience 5 : Sustained Visual Attention; Other: Experience 2 : Passive and Active Auditory Perception

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02858752

69HCL15_0711

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project studies memory and attention in healthy children aged from 5 to 17 years. The processes investigated are short term memory (auditory and visual) and attention.

To characterize these processes involved in childhood, neuropsychological and neurophysiological assessments will be performed (using Electro-encephalography measures, behavioural responses and questionnaires).

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Normal or corrected vision
• No neurological and psychiatric antecedent.
• No neuro-developmental disorder (dysphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder...)
• Motivation to participate to the study
• Signed parental informed consent authorizing their child to participate to the study

Exclusion criteria

• Children educated in a specialized institution.
• Subjects diagnosed with a neurological, psychiatric or neuro-developmental disorder
• Subjects with hearing loss
• Subjects with a visual impairment that cannot be corrected
• Subjects with an organic or chronic disease that can affect cognitive functions.
• Subjects who do not benefit from social security.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy Children

Experimental group

Description:

Memory and Attention in healthy children will be assessed non-invasively through behavioral and electrophysiological measures while participants will perform passive or active computer task involving auditory and/or visual perception.

Treatment:

Other: Experience 5 : Sustained Visual Attention

Other: Experience 4 : Attention and Distractibility

Other: Experience 1 : Auditory and Visual Discrimination

Other: Experience 3 : Visual Attention Training

Other: Experience 2 : Passive and Active Auditory Perception