Clinical trial NCT04566744: NeuroCognitive Bases of Tool Use
Official title: NeuroCognitive Bases of Tool Use
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: Tool use
fMRI
neuroimaging
Lead sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Université Lumière Lyon 2
First posted: 2020-09-28
Enrollment: 320
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To be between the ages of 18 and 65 years old
* Having given an informed consent for the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant or breastfeeding woman
* Persons under curators or deprived of civil rights or deprived of their freedom
* Not being registered with the French Social Security System
* Not able to read/write the French
* Neurologic or psychiatric illness, known or revealed during the inclusion visit
* Substance intake ( taking psychoactive medications or recreational drugs) on the day of the experiment
* Noise intolerance
* Unable to fill a questionnaire (severe cognitive troubles)
* Not willing that their personal doctor to be informed in case of a MRI anomaly.
* Not willing to be informed in case of MRI anomaly
* Subjects must not have metallic or electronic implants in the body : pacemakers or pacemaker wires, open heart surgery, artificial heart valve, brain aneurysm surgery, middle ear implant, hearing aid, braces or extensive dental work, cataract surgery or lens implant, implanted mechanical or electrical device, or artificial limb or joint o foreign metallic objects in the body (bullets, pellets, shrapnel, or metalwork fragments) or current or past employment as machinists, welders or metal workers, tattoos near the head or neck regions, permanent makeup
* Not willing to complete the study
* Appearance of a exclusion criterion during the protocol
* Appearance of an undesirable event preventing the completion of the protocol
* Too great head movements (\>4mm for the session)
* Detection of artifacts in the brain images collected

Primary outcomes:
measure: Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent measure
timeFrame: 1 hour
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bron
country: France
facility: CERMEP
Study officials:
affiliation: Université Lyon 2
name: François OSIURAK, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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