Enhancing Behavior and Brain Response to Visual Targets Using a Computer Game

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02118649

Enrollment

100

Registered

2014-04-21

Start date

2014-04-01

Completion date

2017-07-18

Last updated

2026-08-06

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Conditions

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Brief summary

Participants will play a computer game that is controlled by their gaze patterns and designed to direct attention their attention to specific on-screen targets. Visual attention to targets will be rewarded. Both visual behavior and brain response will be recorded during game play. It is hypothesized that that, over the course of the game, relative to baseline, participants will show (a) increased looking to targets, (b) decreased response time to targets, and (c) enhanced, more efficient neural response to visual cues. It is hypothesized that clinical variability will associate with visual attention and brain response.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALGame

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Able to participate in an eye-tracking experiment * Able to participate in an EEG experiment

Exclusion criteria

* Sensory or physical impairment that would preclude completion of protocol * Participants taking prescription medications that may affect cognitive processes * Participants reporting significant head trauma or history of seizures

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
EEG brain response to targets	Measures will be recorded for the duration of their visit, an expected average of 3 hours.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Visual attention to targets as measured by eye-tracking	Measures will be recorded for the duration of their visit, an expected average of 3 hours.
Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition	Measures will be collected during visit, an expected average of 3 hours.
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule	Measures will be collected during visit, an expected average of 3 hours.
Differential Abilities Scale	Measures will be collected during visit, an expected average of 3 hours.
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition	Measures will be collected during visit, an expected average of 3 hours.
Social Anxiety Scale for Children, Revised	Measures will be collected during visit, an expected average of 3 hours.

Countries

United States

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORJames McPartland

Yale University

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Aug 7, 2026