Investigation of Oscillations Underlying Human Cognitive and Affective Processing Using Intracranial EEG

NCT03268694 | Terminated

• 2 other identifiers: 17-1301R21NS094988-01A1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 4
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Purpose: To investigate the electrophysiological correlates of human cognition and affective processing. Participants: Drug-resistant epilepsy patients undergoing epilepsy surgery cortical mapping with continuous electrocorticography (ECoG) with intracranial electrodes. Procedures (methods): Participants will perform computer-based cognitive and affective processing tasks during routine long-term monitoring. Intracranial EEG will be collected during the task

Conditions

Working Memory; Emotions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Intracranial EEG Spectra Power

  Spectral analysis of electrophysiology data will be performed using multi-taper fft and wavelet transforms. The measures will be compared between different epochs within the tasks to determine what oscillations are modulated by the task. The correlation between the measures described above and the task performance will also be estimated.

  Intracranial EEG will be collected simultaneously when the participants perform the task. 1 Hour

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Task Performance: Reaction Times

  1 Hour

• Intracranial EEG Functional Connectivity Analysis

  Intracranial EEG will be collected simultaneously when the participants perform the task. 1 Hour

Study Arms (1)

Cognitive and Emotion Processing Tasks

EXPERIMENTAL

As a part of the clinical monitoring, intracranial EEG is continuously collected when the participant is at the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at the UNC Neuroscience Hospital. We will use an FDA approved EEG amplifier/data acquisition system to collect the research data. Computer-based tasks will be presented through a laptop and task related timing information will be transmitted from the laptop to the data acquisition system. Computer-based tasks will include Working Memory task, Reward Learning Task and Facial Emotion Recognition Task

Behavioral: Working Memory Task; Behavioral: Reward Learning Task; Behavioral: Facial Emotion Recognition Task

Interventions

Working Memory Task BEHAVIORAL

Sternberg Task Items, which can be visually presented alphabets, shapes or numbers or sound tones presented through speakers, will be presented to the participant. The participant will need to maintain the presented items in their memory and indicate, when a single probe item is presented, whether the probe item was present in the immediately preceding list by pressing a key on the keyboard. N-Back Task Items are presented continuously sequentially and participants are instructed to indicate whether items are repeated n items before by pressing a key on the keyboard. The task is divided into blocks of 0,1,2,3 -back trials based on the 'n'. For example in the 2 - back task, the participant has to indicate if the item presented 2 items before matches the current item. Similar to the previous task, the items can be presented visually or auditorily.

Also known as: Sternberg Task, N-Back Task

Cognitive and Emotion Processing Tasks

Reward Learning Task BEHAVIORAL

Two abstract visual stimuli are presented on the screen and participant is asked to choose one. Unknown to the participant, each stimulus is associated with distinct probabilities of virtual reward such that one stimulus is associated with net gain while the other is associated with net loss. The participant's goal is to maximize the reward. Once the participant identifies the stimulus associated with net gain, the reward probabilities are reversed. This process is repeated 5 times.

Also known as: Learning reversal task

Cognitive and Emotion Processing Tasks

Facial Emotion Recognition Task BEHAVIORAL

On a given trial, participants will be presented with images of two faces side-by-side. The faces will either match in terms of emotion category (e.g., 2 anger faces) or not (e.g., an anger face and a fear face). Faces presented together will always be of the same gender but different identities. Participants will be asked to determine whether the two faces presented depict the same emotion category.

Cognitive and Emotion Processing Tasks

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• History of medically intractable epilepsy
• Capable of giving informed consent
• Aged 18 - 80 years, either sex

You may not qualify if:

• Major systemic illness
• Severe cognitive impairment defined as mini-mental state examination of less than 20
• Severe psychiatric illness
• Excessive use of alcohol or other substances

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: lead
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States

Location

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Study Officials

• Flavio Frohlich, PhD

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Hae Won Shin, MD

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 29, 2017
• First Posted: August 31, 2017
• Study Start: August 7, 2017
• Primary Completion: July 29, 2018
• Study Completion: July 29, 2018
• Last Updated: January 13, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-01

Locations

US (1)