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Status unknownNCT03369860Updated Aug 10, 2018

Neuro-cognitive Bases of Joint Action

An interventional study of Interactivity of Experimental Condition in Health Behavior and Social Interaction, sponsored by I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio. Status unknown at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 35 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-08-10.

Sponsored by I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Aug 2018), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 7 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Apr 2017, registered Nov 2017).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 35 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 13 studies in Health Behavior with a site in Italy — 3 open to participants now, 3 under way, none of them phase 3. Health Behavior · Italy.

Started
2017
the only one that year
No phase
6 of 13
3 open now
Registered
4th of 13
by date
Lead sponsor
1 of 13
I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio

Among the 13 studies in Health Behavior with a site in Italy, this one is the only one that started in 2017, is one of 6 with no phase, and was the 4th registered.

Health Behavior

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Open to participants now

3 of the 13 studies in Health Behavior with a site in Italy are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Who these studies take

Of the 93 Health Behavior studies recruiting now, 39 (42%) set no upper age limit and 37 (40%) stop at 75 or younger; 25 take children under 18; 58 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 35 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.

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Study summary

The ability to interact with conspecifics is crucial in life, yet there is no consensus on the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms beyond those associated with imitative behaviors. This project aims to define a coherent model of non-imitative (complementary) motor interactions. The investigators hypothesize that these might be substantially based on the ability to integrate one's own and a partner's action within a unitary, dual- person (dyadic), motor plan that incorporates a shared goal.

With a novel "minimally-joint" paradigm the investigators will test this hypothesis and measure with behavioral measures (i.e., reaction times) whether the supposedly automatic tendency to imitate others is modulated by the need to coordinate with a partner to achieve a shared goal.

This paradigm will be also applied during a functional MRI experiment to describe the underlying neurophysiological patterns; using dynamic causal modeling the investigators will measure how the brain regions relevant for dyadic motor control are functionally linked.

This converging experimental strategy will permit to compare competing psychological and neural models of motor interactions in healthy participants, opening new experimental avenues for studies in adult neuropsychological patients and in children with typical and atypical social development.

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Conditions studied

  • Health Behavior
  • Social Interaction

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 35 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • right handed; no to MRI

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • to MRI
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Healthy Subjects

    Healthy Subjects take part in the experimental manipulation

    Behavioral: Interactivity of Experimental Condition

Interventions

  • BehavioralInteractivity of Experimental Condition

    The neurofunctional correlates of motor control will be compared between a collaborative and non-interactive condition.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Reaction Times

    The investigators will compare Reaction Times of participants recorded during Joint Action with those recorded in Non-Joint individual condition.

    Time frame: 1 year

  2. BOLD activations

    The investigators will study the neurofunctional activations indexed by the Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) recorded during Joint Action will be compared to the Non-Joint actions

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Hospital
    Milan, 20161, Italy
    Recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Apr 2017 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2018, 20 months after the start.

Of 568 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Health Behavior, half reached primary completion within 15 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 33. This study's planned 20 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 586 studies reached it within 15 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 32.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 21, 2017
First posted
Dec 12, 2017
StartActual
Apr 1, 2017
Primary completionEst.
Dec 20, 2018
CompletionEst.
Dec 20, 2019
Last update
Aug 10, 2018
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 10, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03369860
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 12, 2017
Start date
Apr 1, 2017
Primary completion
Dec 20, 2018 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 20, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 10, 2018

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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