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Pitch Perception and Memory: Deficits and Training
Led by Hospices Civils de Lyon · Updated on 2025-03-03
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Pitch perception and memory play key roles in how people understand sounds, including recognizing where sounds come from, speech patterns, and music. This research evaluates these abilities in people with hearing impairments who use cochlear implants and those with congenital amusia, comparing them to control participants without these conditions. Researchers aim to better understand pitch processing difficulties and test a new pitch training program. Participants engage in two training protocols that include auditory and visual exercises using a tablet. These protocols involve 30 sessions of about 20 minutes each, performed at home over 15 weeks. The study groups include cochlear implant users, participants with congenital amusia, and control participants. Both pitch and visuo-spatial training protocols are applied to all groups. During the study, various measures are collected such as listening test accuracy and reaction times, as well as brain activity recordings using EEG, MEG, and MRI. These assessments occur both during the training period and at the study's start. The researchers monitor how well participants respond to training and track changes in brain responses related to pitch perception. The study welcomes healthy volunteers aged 5 to 90 years, with participation lasting through the training sessions and associated evaluations.
CONDITIONS
Brief Title
Pitch Perception and Memory: Deficits and Training
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Adults aged between 18 and 90 years
- No neurological or psychiatric disorders
- No major cognitive deficits and able to understand and follow study instructions
- Motivated to participate effectively in the study
- Provide written informed consent
- Affiliated with social security
- Control participants and those with congenital amusia must be compatible with MRI/MEG for Experiment 5
- Children aged 5 years and older
- Parental or guardian informed consent for children
- No neurological or psychiatric history in children
- Children without major cognitive impairment and able to understand instructions
- Children affiliated with social security
- Motivated to participate effectively in the study
You will not qualify if you...
- Adults younger than 18 or older than 90 years
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Pregnant or nursing minors
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Your Study Journey
Duration - 2 to 4 weeks
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial.
1 visit (in-person)
Duration - 15 weeks
Participants perform two training protocols consisting of auditory and visual perceptual tasks using a tablet at home.
30 sessions of approximately 20 minutes each performed at home
Duration - 15 weeks
Participants perform a visuo-spatial training protocol involving repetitive perceptual tasks using a tablet at home.
30 sessions of approximately 20 minutes each performed at home
Duration - During the treatment period
Participants undergo EEG/MEG/MRI recordings and listening tests as part of the study assessments.
Visit schedule depends on sessions; specifics not provided
Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Bron, France, 69500
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Research Team
A
Anne CACLIN
B
Barbara Tillmann
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
3
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