Clinical trial NCT04547569: Somesthesic Role of the Ventro-lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Speech Motor Learning
Official title: Somesthesic Role of the Ventro-lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Speech Motor Learning fMRI Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Speech
Motor Activity
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Grenoble
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition
name: GIPSA-LAB
name: McGill University
First posted: 2020-09-14
Enrollment: 16
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 35
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: These studies test the hypothesis that frontal areas of the brain participate in the cortical networks involved in the somotosensory processing that happens during speech motor learning.

Detailed description: This work aims to study the role of sensory systems in human motor learning and specifically addresses the involvement of somatosensory cortical networks in motor learning of speech. Previous studies in the literature have highlighted the plasticity of cortical sensory networks, notably the primary and secondary somatosensory cortex and the ventral premotor cortex, during motor learning tasks. The present project focuses on the somatosensory region with connections to the sensorimotor regions of the frontal and parietal cortex. We propose to use neuroimaging (fMRI), in order to verify which areas in the prefrontal cortex are part of the sensorimotor network used in the learning of speech motor tasks in humans. Subjects will be tested in the fMRI scanner while performing either a behavioral task in which the auditory feedback of their own speech is altered or while performing a vibrotactile discrimination task.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Right-handed subjects
* Subjects fluent in French
* Signed informed consent
* Affiliation to or beneficiary of a Social Security scheme

Exclusion Criteria:

* Left-handed subjects
* Criteria for contraindications to protocol fMRI scans
* Existence of a severe general condition: cardiac, respiratory, hematological, renal, hepatic, cancerous.
* Hearing, language (including dyslexia), neurological or psychiatric disorders.
* Participation in other ongoing intervention research protocols with exclusionary period or within the previous week
* Drug treatment likely to modulate brain activity: benzodiazepines, antidepressants, neuroleptics, lithium, etc.
* Protected persons referred to in articles L1121 5 to L1121 8 of the French CSP:

  * Pregnant women, parturients, nursing mothers,
  * Persons deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision,
  * Persons under psychiatric care,
  * Individuals admitted to a health or social institution for purposes other than research,
  * Minors,
  * Persons over the age of majority who are subject to a legal protection measure or who are unable to express their consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Motor Learning
timeFrame: Performance as measured at the end of learning (during the 1h30 scanner session)
measure: Brain activity
timeFrame: 1h30 scanner session
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Locations:
city: Grenoble
country: France
facility: CHU Grenoble-Alpes
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