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The goal of this study is to investigate the neural mechanisms that undergoes spatial navigation skills in children/adolescents aged between 8 and 17 years. These skills play an important role in daily life, as they allow us to orient ourselves in familiar and unfamiliar environments, locate objects, interact with them and memorize their position. Navigation abilities vary widely between individuals, change with age and might be affected by diseases, such as the cerebral palsy (CP). Previous studies have, in fact, demonstrated differences in the learning and adaptation methods of spatial navigation skills in children affected by CP compared to typically developing (TD) peers. Through the use of the electroencephalogram (EEG) we want to shed light on the mechanisms that govern this ability with the aim of:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Navigation task | Experimental | Administration of the navigation task in an immersive virtual reality environment with recording of the EEG signal |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Preliminary assessment | Other | Evaluation of the cognitive level through the Raven test and of spatial navigation skills through the Corsi test and the maze sub-test of the WISC-III. |
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| Power Spectral Density (PSD) | Differences in power values between TD and CP subjects | Once |
| Navigation performance | Navigation performance based on the following parameters: number of routes visited in each trial; total length of the path for each trial; error between distance traveled and ideal distance for each trial (identified as the minimum distance to reach the treasure from the starting point); angle of rotation of the viewer in each trial; duration of each trial. | Once |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Emilia Biffi | Contact | +39031877862 | emilia.biffi@lanostrafamiglia.it |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| IRCCS Scientific Institute E. Medea | Recruiting | Bosisio Parini | LC | 23842 | Italy |
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| ID | Term |
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| D002547 | Cerebral Palsy |
| ID | Term |
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| D001925 | Brain Damage, Chronic |
| D001927 | Brain Diseases |
| D002493 | Central Nervous System Diseases |
| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
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| Navigation task with EEG recording | Other | Administration of the navigation task in an immersive virtual reality environment and EEG signal recording. The participant will wear virtual reality viewers and EEG cap. The task consists in moving and orienting themselves inside a five-way maze in order to reach a treasure. The participant will be asked to carry out 30 trials lasting a maximum of 120s each. |
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| IRCCS Scientific Institute E. Medea | Recruiting | Conegliano | TV | 31015 | Italy |
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