Post by adamtierney on Aug 6, 2018 16:15:26 GMT
**This study is looking for: children between 10 and 12 months of age with a diagnosis of ADHD, living within a 1 hour commute from London**
Title of project: Training temporally-driven sustained selective attention to sound in children with ADHD
Project objective: Researchers at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) at Birkbeck, University of London have developed an online video game designed to boost the ability to direct attention to sound. In this study we will test the effectiveness of this game in children with ADHD, and investigate whether it can also enhance a) rhythm skills; b) speech comprehension in noisy surroundings; and c) the brain’s encoding of attended sounds.
Participants will come to the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) twice, once for a pre-training session and a second time for a post-training session. Participants will play several games designed to test their rhythm and attention skills. For one of these games they will have sensors on their head which are designed to measure brain activity. In between in-lab testing sessions participants will complete an online training program which will teach them to direct attention to a stream of sound in the presence of distractors. Children will be asked to play a set of online attention games for 15 minutes a day for two weeks.
Participants’ families will be compensated £10 per hour upon completion of the study, which will amount to around £85-£90. Travel costs can also be compensated if necessary.
This study has full ethical approval from the Birkbeck Department of Psychological Sciences and is funded by the Waterloo Foundation. The study started in June 2018 and will be running until December 2019.
My name is Adam Tierney; I am a senior lecturer at Birkbeck in the Department of Psychological Sciences and I am the director of this study. Aeron Laffere, an MSc student at Birkbeck, is also involved in the study as a research assistant. If you are interested in taking part in the study or would like to know more you can email us at dashadhd@bbk.ac.uk.
Title of project: Training temporally-driven sustained selective attention to sound in children with ADHD
Project objective: Researchers at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) at Birkbeck, University of London have developed an online video game designed to boost the ability to direct attention to sound. In this study we will test the effectiveness of this game in children with ADHD, and investigate whether it can also enhance a) rhythm skills; b) speech comprehension in noisy surroundings; and c) the brain’s encoding of attended sounds.
Participants will come to the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) twice, once for a pre-training session and a second time for a post-training session. Participants will play several games designed to test their rhythm and attention skills. For one of these games they will have sensors on their head which are designed to measure brain activity. In between in-lab testing sessions participants will complete an online training program which will teach them to direct attention to a stream of sound in the presence of distractors. Children will be asked to play a set of online attention games for 15 minutes a day for two weeks.
Participants’ families will be compensated £10 per hour upon completion of the study, which will amount to around £85-£90. Travel costs can also be compensated if necessary.
This study has full ethical approval from the Birkbeck Department of Psychological Sciences and is funded by the Waterloo Foundation. The study started in June 2018 and will be running until December 2019.
My name is Adam Tierney; I am a senior lecturer at Birkbeck in the Department of Psychological Sciences and I am the director of this study. Aeron Laffere, an MSc student at Birkbeck, is also involved in the study as a research assistant. If you are interested in taking part in the study or would like to know more you can email us at dashadhd@bbk.ac.uk.