Actively Recruiting
NeuroCognitive Bases of Tool Use
Led by Hospices Civils de Lyon · Updated on 2024-06-25
320
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
317 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
H
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lead Sponsor
U
Université Lumière Lyon 2
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Tool use is considered to be the hallmark of complex cognitive adaptations that humans have achieved trough evolution, that provides an adaptive advantage to the human species. Even if nonhuman species do use tools too, human tool use is much more complex and sophisticated. If humans have special abilities for tool use, it has to be grounded in a specific neuroanatomical substrate. Humans and nonhumans share a similar prehension system located within the superior parietal lobe and the intraparietal sulcus. However, there is a human specificity: the supramarginal gyrus within the left inferior parietal lobe is unique to humans, and could play a central role in tool use. This project aims to study the neurocognitive bases of human tool use with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), to precise the cognitive mechanisms through which humans are able to use tools.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
NeuroCognitive Bases of Tool Use
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Be between the ages of 18 and 65 years old
- Have given informed consent for the study
You will not qualify if you...
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Persons under curatorship, deprived of civil rights, or deprived of their freedom
- Not registered with the French Social Security System
- Unable to read or write French
- Known or newly diagnosed neurological or psychiatric illness
- Use of psychoactive medications or recreational drugs on the day of the experiment
- Noise intolerance
- Unable to complete a questionnaire due to severe cognitive problems
- Do not agree to inform their personal doctor if an MRI anomaly is found
- Do not agree to be informed if an MRI anomaly is found
- Presence of metallic or electronic implants or foreign metal objects in the body
- Current or past employment as machinists, welders, or metal workers
- Tattoos near the head or neck regions or permanent makeup
- Unwilling to complete the study
- Appearance of exclusion criteria during the study
- Occurrence of an event preventing study completion
- Excessive head movement during MRI (greater than 4mm)
- Detection of artifacts in brain images collected
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
CERMEP
Bron, France
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Research Team
F
François OSIURAK, PhD
CONTACT
Y
Yves ROSSETTI, MD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
4
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