Dissociating the role of the inferior frontal gyrus and middle temporal gyrus in language comprehension with transcranial magnetic stimulatio
Completed
- Conditions
- niet van toepassingnot applicable
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON34139
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Inclusion Criteria
Healthy, right-handed males and females, aged 18-35 years. All subjects will have normal or corrected-to-normal vision.
Exclusion Criteria
Contra-indications for TMS and fMRI: drug abuse, head trauma, neurological or psychiatric illness, pregnancy, heart disease, claustrophobia, cardiac pacemakers, metal objects in the body, medication pumps, tricyclicantidepressants, neuroleptics and a family history of neurological illness, psychiatric illness or epilepsy.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Eye movements (fixation durations, forward and backwards saccades, etc) and<br /><br>comprehension accuracy will be measured during the sentence processing task to<br /><br>determine at what stages of sentence processing (i.e., lexical retrieval vs.<br /><br>sentence integration) TMS is having it's effect.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>No secondary parameters/outcomes</p><br>