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Language Acquisition in the Brain and Algorithms: Towards Systematic Monitoring of the Evolution of Semantic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks

Recruiting
Conditions
Language Acquisition in the Brain
Registration Number
NCT05217043
Lead Sponsor
Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild
Brief Summary

Speech depends on our ability to recursively combine successive words into a complex sense. Although the order of these putative operations (syntax) has been the subject of extensive examination in the way in which the human brain learns to perform a "Semantic composition" remains largely unknown.

The Rothschild Hospital houses a unit specializing in drug-resistant epilepsy in children from 2 to 20 years old.

The identification of the epileptogenic zone often requires making an iEEG recording for a week (implantation of intracerebral electrodes in depth).

Sometimes this recording has to be repeated, providing a unique opportunity to directly record brain activity at different periods of its development.

Children will listen to pre-recorded phrases and stories such as "The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" while being recorded with iEEG.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria
  • Any patient benefiting from a long-term intracranial brain recording.
  • Non-opposition to participating in the study (adult patients)
  • Non-opposition of at least one of the holders of the exercise of parental authority (minor patients)
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patient with complete deafness

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
This is a non-clinical research study investigating from intracranial recordings how speech representation changes throughout human development.maximum 21 days

intracranial recordings

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Fondation Ophtalmologique de Rothschild

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Paris, France

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