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EEG correlates of time experience in a virtual-reality-starfield in healthy participants and patients with depression

EEG correlates of time experience in a virtual-reality-starfield in healthy participants and patients with depression

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00031986
Enrollment
80
Registered
2023-05-30
Start date
2023-06-06
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-04-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

F31 F32

Interventions

Group 1: All participants will go through 75 trials during which they observe starfield stimuli at different levels of velocity (no movement, slow, fast) and density (few, many stars). The starfield w

Sponsors

Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Klinikum der Universität zu Köln
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 55 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Normal or corrected visual vision, Legally valid informed consent from the subject to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Current psychotropic medication; No normal or uncorrected vision; Presence of color vision impairments or blindness; Lack of legally effective informed consent; Incapacitated persons and persons in official or judicial custody (PsychKG, BTG).

Design outcomes

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
The second question this study addresses is whether the time experience and its situational specificity is comparable between patients with depression and healthy participants.

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The aim of this study is to investigate the question: is the experience of how fast time passes during a time interval (A) specific to situational factors (e.g. duration of the interval, stimulus characteristics during this interval, task demands) or (B) is it based on a more general property of our experience that transcends situational factors.

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactKai Vogeley

Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Klinikum der Universität zu Köln

kai.vogeley@uk-koeln.de+49 221 478 87155

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026