The Assessment of Auditory Narrative Engagement and Listening Effort in Children
Narrative Engagement in Children
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)
Children routinely engage in listening activities where they are required to sustain their attention and listen carefully so that they can incorporate things they have heard to understand future events. This includes classroom listening, story time with family members, or social communication with friends. In the current study, we are hoping to study how children maintain their attention in these types of listening scenarios, and how this relates to things like working memory across children.
Typically developing children
Age 9 to 12
Fluent in English
Who can participate in this study?
To be eligible, children must be between the ages of 9 to 12, have normal or corrected-to-normal vision, and can read and understand English. Children will be excluded in they have any hearing impariments.
What is involved?
We would like to study your ability to listen to a spoken story while you wear a hat measuring your brain's activity. If you want to be in this study, you will have to listen to three stories. The stories will each be around 5 minutes long. Listening to all three stories will take around 20 minutes. We will also ask you some questions about the stories you hear. We will ask you about how you felt while listening and if you can remember different events from the stories. Answering these questions may take around 5 minutes. After you are done listening to the stories, you will play another short game that will take around 15 minutes. In this game, you will have to press a button if you see a pattern that we will tell you appear on the screen. The whole study will take around 75 minutes to finish.
Principal Investigator; Posting Dates
Principal Investigator: Blake Butler
Study posted on: November 11th, 2024
Recruitment open until: March 30th, 2025
Who can I contact to learn more about this study?
Sign Up for Western's Global Cognitive Neuroscience Registry
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