An observational study in Hearing Disorders and Deafness, sponsored by Institut Pasteur. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 85 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-31.
Sponsored by Institut Pasteur · Observational
The goal of this study is to identify electrical patterns in the cortex that enable the generation of predictions in natural auditory sequences such as speech and music.
Between 500 and 700 participants in total (250 to 350 normally hearing participants (including 60 to 120 participants from West Africa and 60 to 120 participants from Western Europe) and 250 to 350 participants with hearing loss (no restrictions on origin)).
Participants will listen to naturally recorded music and speech via headphones. They will be asked to rate these stimuli on a scale from 0 to 10 in terms of pleasure and comprehension, using a keyboard and mouse or voice input. Additionally, they will be required to sing or produce novel/improvised vocal responses using high-fidelity microphones. This entire procedure will be conducted under electroencephalography (EEG) to record neuronal responses throughout the process.
160 studies on the registry are indexed under Deafness; 46 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 700 is above the median of 101 across 47 observational studies indexed under Deafness.
Browse Deafness studies →Institut Pasteur is the lead sponsor of 99 studies on the registry; 41 are open to participants now.
Compared within Deafness, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Hearing Disorders. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
Hearing participants will be recruited from the general population in the Paris region.
We will also recruit participants with hearing impairment through ENT clinics, in hearing aid dispensing centers.
Finally, we will specifically recruit participants residing in Paris and of West African origin to examine differences related to cultural experience.
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For hearing participants:
For participants with hearing loss:
For participants of West African origin:
Exclusion Criteria:
Correlation between neural recordings and IA models
To identify electrical patterns in cortex which generates predictions in natural auditory sequences (such as speak and music).
Time frame: Day 1
Compare predictions generated across different cultural contexts
specifically, comparing West African and Western European communities in Paris
Time frame: Day 1
Compare predictions for identical stimuli across repeated sessions to establish a link between processing and successful memorization/retention.
Time frame: From enrollement to visit 2 (10 days)
Compare predictions generated between hearing individuals and those with hearing impairments.
Time frame: Day 2
Correlate predictive measures with responses to autism symptom questionnaires across the various experiments.
Time frame: Day 1
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