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WithdrawnNCT03905616HIERARCHYUpdated Feb 25, 2021

HIERARCHY OF VISION

An interventional study of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Neurologic Signs, sponsored by Hospices Civils de Lyon. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 40 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-02-25.

Sponsored by Hospices Civils de Lyon · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science

Why this study was withdrawn
abandonment
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 40 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Little is known about the exact role of feedback in cortical processing. Hypotheses on its function range from attentional control to the transmission of Bayesian priors in the interpretation of sensory events, such as in the theory of Predictive Coding. Recent advances in identification of functional signatures of feedback and feedforward signal, as well as additional techniques based on causal relations in signal processing open a unique methodology for probing such processes in awake and behaving organisms and testing these theories and more generally the hierarchical processing between cortical areas.

The objective of this project is to study feedback and feedforward relations and localization in the well established pathways between cortical areas V1 and Medial Temporal (MT) that have been implicated in early integration processes in motion perception.

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Conditions studied

  • Neurologic Signs

Keywords

  • Vision
  • perception
  • BOLD activity
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In context

Neurologic Manifestations

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Lead sponsor

Hospices Civils de Lyon is the lead sponsor of 1,826 studies on the registry; 439 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 40 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Aged between 18 and 40 years old
  • Affiliated to a social security scheme
  • Be right-handed
  • Have signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects with a neurological or psychiatric history
  • Subjects with visual disturbances not corrected
  • Pregnant, lactating or childbearing women without contraception.
  • Persons under guardianship, trusteeship or any other administrative or judicial measure of deprivation of rights or liberty, as well as adults protected by law.
  • Participants refusing to be informed of the results of the medical examination.
  • Participants refusing to be informed of the possible detection of an anomaly.
  • Volunteers with contraindications to the MRI examination: people using a pacemaker or an insulin pump, persons wearing a metal prosthesis or an intracerebral clip as well as claustrophobic subjects, neurosensory stimulator or implantable defibrillator, cochlear implants, ferromagnetic foreign body ocular or cerebral close to the nerve structures, agitation of the subject (non-cooperating or agitated subjects), ventriculoperitoneal neurosurgical bypass valves, dental apparatus.
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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
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    healthy subjects

    25 healthy subjects with a normal/corrected vision fitting to all of the inclusion/exclusion criteria. All the subjects will be tested on the same visual stimuli, leading to intrasubject comparison analyses of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity between conditions.

    Device: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Interventions

  • Devicefunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    In a 2-hour session, the subject we be shown different control and experimental conditions (all being visual stimuli) in perceptive tasks.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Non-invasive Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) fMRI activity

    Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) imaging is the standard technique used to generate images in fMRI studies, and relies on regional differences in cerebral blood flow to delineate regional activity. This non-invasive technic is not inducing any particular risk. The non invasive BOLD fMRI activity will be recorded in healthy subjects during a task of visual perception.

    Time frame: At inclusion

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 25, 2021, 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
NCT03905616
Lead sponsor
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 5, 2019
Start date
Jul 22, 2019
Primary completion
Feb 17, 2021
Completion
Feb 17, 2021
Last update
Feb 25, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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