Brain Dynamics of Spatial and Verbal Processing
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Brain Dynamics of Spatial and Verbal Processing
IRAS ID
314432
Contact name
Duncan Astle
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Cambridge
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
A range of cognitive abilities emerge and develop during childhood. In some cases, children exhibit neurodevelopmental differences which affect certain elements of learning, skill acquisition, and mental health. This can have lifelong implications, including opportunity costs in both employment and social life (Tilley et al., 2015). This study is designed to establish how rapid brain processes can underpin differences between children, using MEG neuroimaging. We want to investigate how these rapid brain mechanisms vary with inattention and hyperactivity, a measure of behaviour that varies across the population. In order to make sure that we capture children with particular difficulties in these aspects of behaviour, we would like to recruit children who originally visited the Centre for Attention Learning and Memory (CALM). It is often very hard to recruit children with difficulties in inattention and hyperactivity, and the CALM cohort oversampled this population. Our study will help elucidate how dynamic neurophysiological processes differ among children, and how these rapid brain processes vary across different cognitive domains according to levels of inattention and hyperactivity.
REC name
West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/WM/0082
Date of REC Opinion
1 Jun 2022
REC opinion
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