Sonification Embodied Associations

Hasselt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis

Treatments: Other: learning and recall of a sequence of body movements

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03931278

SEA-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study to investigate, if learning and recall of a sequence of body movements (steps that realize a pattern on the ground) can be improved by self-produced music (having particular melodic-structures in relation to the pattern), compared to the same sound (a single tone) for each pattern in persons with multiple sclerosis compared to age and gender matched controls

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Time up and Go (TUG) test: 8 sec -- > 21 sec

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive impairment hindering the understanding and execution of the experimental procedures,
• pregnancy,
• hearing impairment,
• amusia
• beat deafness,
• colour blindness.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Other group

Treatment:

Other: learning and recall of a sequence of body movements

Healthy controls

Other group

Treatment:

Other: learning and recall of a sequence of body movements