Memory and Attention in Healthy Children

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Brief Summary: This project studies memory and attention in healthy children aged from 5 to 17 years. The processes investigated are short term memory (auditory and visual) and attention.

To characterize these processes involved in childhood, neuropsychological and neurophysiological assessments will be performed (using Electro-encephalography measures, behavioural responses and questionnaires).

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Normal or corrected vision
No neurological and psychiatric antecedent.
No neuro-developmental disorder (dysphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder...)
Motivation to participate to the study
Signed parental informed consent authorizing their child to participate to the study

Exclusion Criteria

Children educated in a specialized institution.
Subjects diagnosed with a neurological, psychiatric or neuro-developmental disorder
Subjects with hearing loss
Subjects with a visual impairment that cannot be corrected
Subjects with an organic or chronic disease that can affect cognitive functions.
Subjects who do not benefit from social security.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neurophysiological tests: Event-related potentials in response to auditory and visual stimulations	2 months
Neuropsychological tests: Proportion of accurate answers	2 months
Neuropsychological tests: reaction time of answers (seconds)	2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of accurate answers according to age range of children	2 months
reaction time of answers (seconds) according to age range of children	2 months
Event-related potentials in response to auditory and visual stimulations according to age range of children	2 months

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