Recruiting

Perceptual Learning

Sponsor:

Brown University

Code:

NCT06965478

Conditions

Perceptual Learning

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 60

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Visual Training

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to investigate how our performance changes after our perceptual system is trained in a certain way ("perceptual learning"). In addition, investigators are interested in identifying and characterizing relationships between such changes and neuroimaging signals recorded from the human brain.

Conditions

Perceptual Learning

Study ID

NCT06965478

Start date

Jul 22, 2025

Status verified date

Nov, 2025

Completion date

Jan, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 60

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Ages 18 - 60,
  • Normal or corrected-to-normal vision

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Eye disorders (cataracts, age related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma)
  • Drug use (psychoactive drugs, neuroleptic medications, prescription medications that might affect cognitive and motor performance)
  • Sleep disorders (sleep apnea, insomnia)
  • Magnetically or mechanically activated implants (such as cardiac pacemakers)
  • clips on blood vessels in the brain
  • intrauterine devices
  • dentures
  • pregnancy

Study Design

Enrollment

400 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Visual Training

Participants are asked to detect or discriminate visual stimuli.

Primary outcome measure

  • Behavioral measure [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 2 weeks. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Takeo Watanabe

401-863-6916takeo_watanabe@brown.edu

Research Assistant

401-863-5186akiko_norton@brown.edu

Locations

Brown University

Recruiting

Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02912

Contacts

Academic Department Manager

401-863-2702reinette_sousa@brown.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Brown University

Last update posted

Nov 19, 2025

Last verified

Nov, 2025

Keywords

  • Behavioral

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Brown University on 2025-11-19.