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NeuroCognitive Bases of Tool Use

NCT04566744 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 320

Last updated 2024-06-25

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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.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

OTHER

fRMI

The measurements performed will be the participant's brain activity, as well as behavioral measurements associated with the tasks performed (response time, correctness of the response). Brain activity measurements will be performed on the Siemens 3T system of the MRI department of CERMEP. The subject will perform the task under study while the level of brain activity is recorded. The functional examination will be subdivided into several parts according to its total length in order to spare the subject. The total duration of MRI acquisitions will be approximately 1 hour regardless of the axis.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Université Lumière Lyon 2

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • François OSIURAK, PhD · Université Lyon 2

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-08
Primary Completion
2027-12-08
Completion
2027-12-08

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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