RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06467292

Speech Motor Learning and Retention (Master Protocol)

Sensorimotor Basis of Speech Motor Learning and Retention


Sponsor

Yale University

Enrollment

330 participants

Start Date

Oct 1, 2024

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Summary

The overall goal of this research is to test a new model of speech motor learning, whose central hypothesis is that learning and retention are associated with plasticity not only in motor areas of the brain but in auditory and somatosensory regions as well.


Eligibility

Min Age: 18 YearsMax Age: 40 Years

Inclusion Criteria4

  • Fluent English speakers
  • Right-handed
  • Normal hearing
  • No speech disorder or reading disability

Exclusion Criteria12

  • Cardiac pacemaker
  • Aneurysm clip
  • Heart or Vascular clip
  • Prosthetic valve
  • Metal implants
  • Metal in brain, skull, or spinal cord
  • Implanted neurostimulator
  • Medication infusion device
  • Cochlear implant or tinnitus (ringing in ears)
  • Personal and/or family history of epilepsy or other neurological disorders or history of head concussion
  • Psychoactive medications
  • Pregnancy

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Interventions

DEVICEcontinuous theta-burst stimulation (cTBS)

cTBS stimulation will be applied to different areas of the brain following learning. Stimulation will take place following learning in order to block motor memory retention.

BEHAVIORALAdaptation

Auditory adaptation in speech

DEVICESingle pulse Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

TMS will be delivered 10 times in each motor evoked potentials (MEP) recording block.

DEVICEfMRI

To assess functional connectivity patterns between regions that predict learning.


Locations(1)

Yale Child Study Center

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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