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A Story for Pepper & Nao
NCT06797050 · IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris · Updated 2 April 2026
- What is being tested
- Training in reordering figurative stories with a social robot through the Learning by Teaching approach
- For
- Children and Adolescents With Neuromotor Impairment
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 7 years to 16 years. About 80 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Italy (3 sites)
- When
- Starts or started 1 April 2025, ends 30 Oct 2026. Registered 28 Jan 2025.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
The aim of the present study is to improve cognitive processes that are frequently impaired in children characterised by neuromotor impairment, such as the skills of visual-perceptual analysis and selective attention, working memory, narrative organisation, logical-inferential reasoning and motor planning. For this purpose, a task of reordering figurative stories and action sequences, which include the aforementioned processes, will be used through an innovative Learning by Teaching training paradigm with a social robot. Furthermore, the study aims to verify the children's level of behavioural, cognitive and emotional engagement during the interaction with the social robot and to test the generalisation effects of the intervention on other processes, such as working memory, inhibition and planning.
Sites
- IRCCS Eugenio MedeaBosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy
- IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Naz.le C.MondinoPavia, Pavia, Italy
- IRCCS Fondazione Stella MarisCalambrone, Pisa, Italy