fNIRS Mother-Child IBS
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Inter-Brain Synchrony Between Cochlear Implanted-Children and Their Mother:an fNIRS Study
IRAS ID
319462
Contact name
Douglas E H Hartley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Nottingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
000, NA
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 4 months, 30 days
Research summary
Children born profoundly deaf in the UK usually have their hearing partially restored with cochlear implants (CIs). Although CIs have been very successful, some children do not hear well with them, which has a negative impact on their speech and language acquisition as well as their brain development. Parent-child interactions facilitate the child's socio-emotional and language development, improving CI outcomes.It is believed that IBS can be measured using non-invasive neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which is an optical technique that is safe for CI children. fNIRS uses infrared light to measure changes in blood in the brain. Previous studies focused to measure brain responses to auditory and visual speech in normally hearing children. However, little is known regarding the underlying neural mechanisms from which these CI children -parent interactions arise on. The question that arises here is what are the cortical and behavioural factors underlying interactions between CI children and their mothers and how do they differ from interactions between mothers and children with normal hearing? ? Understanding these differences and the mechanisms driving them will help us understand the role of parent-child interactions on long term CI success. Therefore, the aim of this project is to better understand of the neural synchrony between CI children-parent interactions and how this differs from normal hearing controls. This study will help us to understand the language, speech and social development of deaf children during social interactions with their mother, and how this can be measured objectively with fNIRS. We hope this will allow for better understanding of underlining mechanism of IBS on CI children-parents interactions, and the eventual impact this has on long terms CI outcomes.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/EM/0111
Date of REC Opinion
15 May 2023
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion