Clinical trial NCT05300100: Exploration of Sensory-motor Representations in Children of Typical Development Aged 5 to 8
Official title: Exploration of Sensory-motor Representations in Children of Typical Development Aged 5 to 8
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: CHILD
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier de Lens
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
First posted: 2022-03-29
Enrollment: 120
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 8
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Evaluate the quality of sensorimotor representations in typically developing children aged 5 to 8 years.

Detailed description: The early coupling of perception and action makes it possible to build the sensorimotor representations, necessary for the functions of anticipation, adaptation and learning which will allow a harmonious development of motor skills throughout ontogenesis. One of the current hypotheses to explain the learning disorders detected in elementary school is a defect in the development of sensorimotor representations. Our study therefore aims to assess the quality of sensorimotor representations in typically developing children aged 5 to 8 years, using a motor imaging protocol, conventionally used in the literature in adults and patients. child. This motor imagery protocol consists of comparing the time taken by the subject to perform a given action and the time taken to imagine the action he has just performed. More precisely, the mental chronometry paradigm, based on the similarity or the difference between the two durations, makes it possible to assess the robustness of sensorimotor representations. While this isochrony is widely reported in the literature in adults, developmental studies describe onset around 9-10 years of age. Currently there is a lack of data to know the construction of these sensorimotor representations in younger children, especially during the transition to primary school. The originality of our protocol lies in two points: 1. the proposed tasks are particularly suited to young children and 2. the subject himself times his performance in the two situations: action carried out and action imagined. The duration of the experience will last 1 hour per participant in a single session.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child aged 5 to 8
* Child enrolled in accordance with his age
* No sensory abnormality identified
* No neurodevelopmental abnormality identified

Exclusion Criteria:

* Child not affiliated to a social security scheme.
* Refusal to participate by parents and / or child

Primary outcomes:
measure: Evaluate the quality of sensorimotor representations in typically developing children aged 5 to 8 years.
timeFrame: Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Study the link between the construction of internal representations and overall sensorimotor skills according to age.
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Study the link between the motor imagery score of each individual task and overall sensorimotor skills by age
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Study the link between the global motor imagery score, that is to say the construction of internal representations, and each of the 3 specific sensorimotor skills assessed via the MABC-II test according to age.
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Study the link between the motor imagery score of each individual task and each of the 3 sensorimotor skills assessed via the MABC-II test according to age.
timeFrame: Day 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Amiens
country: France
facility: Psychomotor therapist' offices
city: Lens
country: France
facility: Hospital Dr Schaffner
city: Lille
country: France
facility: Hôpital Saint Vincent
city: Maubeuge
country: France
facility: Hospital Sambre Avesnois
city: Wavrin
country: France
facility: Psychomotor therapist' offices
Study officials:
affiliation: Hospital of Lens
name: Marie-Bertille DEHOUCK, Dr
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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