Neuro-cognitive Bases of Joint Action

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Basi Neuro-cognitive Dell'Interazione Motoria

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03369860
• Other study ID #: JOINT
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2018
• Source: Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The ability to interact with conspecifics is crucial in life, yet there is no consensus on the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms beyond those associated with imitative behaviors. This project aims to define a coherent model of non-imitative (complementary) motor interactions. The investigators hypothesize that these might be substantially based on the ability to integrate one's own and a partner's action within a unitary, dual- person (dyadic), motor plan that incorporates a shared goal.

With a novel "minimally-joint" paradigm the investigators will test this hypothesis and measure with behavioral measures (i.e., reaction times) whether the supposedly automatic tendency to imitate others is modulated by the need to coordinate with a partner to achieve a shared goal.

This paradigm will be also applied during a functional MRI experiment to describe the underlying neurophysiological patterns; using dynamic causal modeling the investigators will measure how the brain regions relevant for dyadic motor control are functionally linked.

This converging experimental strategy will permit to compare competing psychological and neural models of motor interactions in healthy participants, opening new experimental avenues for studies in adult neuropsychological patients and in children with typical and atypical social development.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 20, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• right handed; no contraindication to MRI

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindication to MRI

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior
• Social Interaction

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Interactivity of Experimental Condition
The neurofunctional correlates of motor control will be compared between a collaborative and non-interactive condition.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Hospital	Milan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reaction Times	The investigators will compare Reaction Times of participants recorded during Joint Action with those recorded in Non-Joint individual condition.	1 year
Primary	BOLD activations	The investigators will study the neurofunctional activations indexed by the Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) recorded during Joint Action will be compared to the Non-Joint actions	1 year