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A Neuropsychological Test Battery for the Assessment of Time Deficits

NCT04419818 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2023-09-25

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Summary

Time processing involves different abilities - i.e. estimating the duration of an event and moving in past and future time - and it is a fundamental ability in everyday life. For these reasons the assessment and the rehabilitation of time deficits in brain damaged patients is extremely important.

The ability to estimate and reproduce time processing is usually evaluated using computerized tasks and it is influenced by aging: young participants overestimate and elderly participants underestimate time durations.

Virtual Reality is an ecological approach that has recently been used for the assessment of cognitive deficits. Here we use Virtual Reality to study the ability to estimate time duration of an action execution and perception in a simulated everyday activity.

Conditions

  • Brain Damage
  • Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality task consists of a 3D computer-generated virtual environment that will be displayed on a desktop VR computer monitor. A joystick will provide the graphical interface for patients by allowing user-friendly exploration of virtual scenarios. Participants will be presented 16 actions, with dynamic simulations of real life situations. They will verbally estimate and reproduce the duration of each previously presented action.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bologna

    collaborator OTHER

  • Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francesca Frassinetti, PhD · Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-01
Primary Completion
2022-12-01
Completion
2023-01-13

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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