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NCT06229093
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Multimodal Musical Stimulation for Healthy Neurocognitive Aging

Sponsor: Northeastern University

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Summary

This is a Stage I randomized, sham-controlled trial on the effects of multimodal musical stimulation on working memory in aging. Neurologically healthy older and younger adults will be tested on working memory and electroencephalography in the first randomized controlled trial of music as a form of brain stimulation, with multimodal musical stimulation and control stimulation conditions. Results will test the causal role of oscillatory mechanisms of the brain on cognition, and will lay the groundwork to the first musical, neurophysiologically targeted, brain-stimulation device for reversing cognitive decline in aging.

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - 95 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

100

Start Date

2022-12-11

Completion Date

2027-12-31

Last Updated

2025-07-10

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Gamma

For the OAg group, the visual component of multimodal stimulation will have the same properties as for the other group, except it will also be additionally amplitude-modulated in the gamma-band (30-60 Hz) range, resulting in a detectable flicker over-and-above the beat-level modulation.

DEVICE

Synchrony

For the OA group, the lights will be tuned to delta-band frequencies (1-4 Hz) in the music, which corresponds to the beat-level frequency in most music. Thus, the lights automatically adapt to the rhythm of the music, pulsing on the beat and changing color on strong beats.

Locations (1)

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts, United States