Exploration of Sensory-motor Representations in Children of Typical Development Aged 5 to 8

NCT ID: NCT05300100

Last Updated: 2023-03-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 120 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-03-04
• Study Completion Date: 2023-01-27

Brief Summary

Evaluate the quality of sensorimotor representations in typically developing children aged 5 to 8 years.

Detailed Description

The early coupling of perception and action makes it possible to build the sensorimotor representations, necessary for the functions of anticipation, adaptation and learning which will allow a harmonious development of motor skills throughout ontogenesis. One of the current hypotheses to explain the learning disorders detected in elementary school is a defect in the development of sensorimotor representations. Our study therefore aims to assess the quality of sensorimotor representations in typically developing children aged 5 to 8 years, using a motor imaging protocol, conventionally used in the literature in adults and patients. child. This motor imagery protocol consists of comparing the time taken by the subject to perform a given action and the time taken to imagine the action he has just performed. More precisely, the mental chronometry paradigm, based on the similarity or the difference between the two durations, makes it possible to assess the robustness of sensorimotor representations. While this isochrony is widely reported in the literature in adults, developmental studies describe onset around 9-10 years of age. Currently there is a lack of data to know the construction of these sensorimotor representations in younger children, especially during the transition to primary school. The originality of our protocol lies in two points: 1. the proposed tasks are particularly suited to young children and 2. the subject himself times his performance in the two situations: action carried out and action imagined. The duration of the experience will last 1 hour per participant in a single session.

Conditions

CHILD

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Activities

The duration of the experience will last 1 hour per participant in a single session.

The proposed actions were chosen from a very large sensorimotor repertoire of activities in everyday life for a child aged 5 to 8.

The activities chosen involve either the whole body or specific parts such as the hand to grasp or perform graphic tests.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

sensorimotor activities

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The activities chosen involve either the whole body or specific parts such as the hand to grasp or perform graphic tests.

• Trial 1 : Straightening: passage from sitting to sitting.
• Trial 2 : Movement with difficulty of balance: heel-toe walking
• Trial 3 : Movement with difficulty of balance with a structured visual environment: heel-toe walk in a contrasting fabric decoration to increase the impact of visual flow
• Trial 4 : Move to a target, 5 m away
• Trial 5 : Graphics: drawing of a tree. This test requires spatial skills and the establishment of median space in written transcription.
• Trial 6 : Manual entry: collection of 12 small cubes arranged in an arc in front of the child using one hand, the choice of which will be left to the child.

All of these tests will be offered according to a so-called "interlaced" protocol, that is to say, each execution of an action will be followed by an action simulation, and this alternation will be repeated 5 times for each task. .

Interventions

sensorimotor activities

The activities chosen involve either the whole body or specific parts such as the hand to grasp or perform graphic tests.

• Trial 1 : Straightening: passage from sitting to sitting.
• Trial 2 : Movement with difficulty of balance: heel-toe walking
• Trial 3 : Movement with difficulty of balance with a structured visual environment: heel-toe walk in a contrasting fabric decoration to increase the impact of visual flow
• Trial 4 : Move to a target, 5 m away
• Trial 5 : Graphics: drawing of a tree. This test requires spatial skills and the establishment of median space in written transcription.
• Trial 6 : Manual entry: collection of 12 small cubes arranged in an arc in front of the child using one hand, the choice of which will be left to the child.

All of these tests will be offered according to a so-called "interlaced" protocol, that is to say, each execution of an action will be followed by an action simulation, and this alternation will be repeated 5 times for each task. .

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Child aged 5 to 8
• Child enrolled in accordance with his age
• No sensory abnormality identified
• No neurodevelopmental abnormality identified

Exclusion Criteria

• Child not affiliated to a social security scheme.
• Refusal to participate by parents and / or child

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Centre Hospitalier de Lens

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Marie-Bertille DEHOUCK, Dr

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital of Lens

Locations

Psychomotor therapist' offices

Amiens, , France

Hospital Dr Schaffner

Lens, , France

Hôpital Saint Vincent

Lille, , France

Hospital Sambre Avesnois

Maubeuge, , France

Psychomotor therapist' offices

Wavrin, , France

Countries

France

Other Identifiers

2021-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id