Study of Language and Motor Imagery to Enhance Motor Skills and Understand Language in Healthy Adults Aged 18 to 40

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are studying how the brains motor and language systems interact, focusing on whether imagining movements and understanding action words use similar brain processes. This study explores these interactions through three experimental sequences to advance scientific understanding in both basic and clinical areas. The research is observational and involves healthy adults who read French and are right-handed. Participants will engage in activities such as imagining arm or foot movements, reading sentences about these movements, and performing actual movements. Study groups include those undergoing transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS, functional MRI fMRI, and paired associative stimulation ccPAS, with both sham and control groups involved to compare effects. During the study, researchers will measure brain activity and motor system excitability using techniques like BOLD signal imaging and corticospinal excitability tests over sessions lasting up to 90 minutes. The study requires participants to be followed from the start date through July 2028, with assessments focused on motor and language brain functions and their connections.

LAnguage-Motor Imagery Circuits to Improve Motor Learning and Language Comprehension