OMMABA

OMMABA: The Open Multimodal Music and Auditory Brain Archive

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We are searching for both musicians and non-musicians to participate in a behavioural and brain-imaging study about auditory abilities and the brain. This would help create a database focused on auditory cognition, allowing researchers to ask novel questions and understand in the links between neural responses and auditory perception of sound, music, and speech in health and disease.

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Both male and female

18 years old to 35 years old

Healthy Volunteers

Who can participate in this study?

To be eligible to participate in this study, you must:

  • Speak English fluently, whether or not you also speak other languages
  • not have any major neurological or psychiatric disorder
  • have normal hearing and vision
  • not have a perfect pitch
  • be between 18 and 35 years old

What is involved?

You will perform a series of behavioural tasks and answer questionnaires that will allow us to measure your auditory abilities across different types of stimuli. Also, we will acquire functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG) data while you listen to various songs to have more information about how the brain is processing these signals. Participants will be expected to participate in 4 sessions over a 1-year period:

  • 2 behavioural sessions of ~2 hours each: Participants will conduct a variety of auditory tests across both sessions, as well as listen to music and stories and answer questions about them. They will also be given a set of questionnaires at the end of sessions.
  • 1 EEG session of ~2.5 hours: Participants will hear music and stories, or sit in silence, while we record EEG. We will measure the frequency-following response (FFR), during which they will hear a short sound repeated many times, but they will not need to respond.
  • 1 fMRI session of ~2.5 hours: While you are in the MRI scanner, you will listen to music and stories and you will also answer some questions at the end of each segment.
  • An optional gait session of ~1.5 hours can be done for extra compensation.

Principal Investigator & Posting Dates

Principal Investigator: Jessica Grahn
Study posted on: August 31st, 2023
Recruitment open until: May 12th, 2024

Who can I contact to learn more about this study?

For more information about this study please contact:

Matthew Leung
mleun87@uwo.ca

 

 

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