What this means
This is a plan for a trial that is still recruiting people, so no results exist yet. It does not show that music helps memory or slows memory loss.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 18–95
- Where
- 1 site, including Massachusetts
The science
- Registered title
- Multimodal Musical Stimulation for Healthy Neurocognitive Aging
- Trial ID
- NCT06229093 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Aging
- What is tested
- Gamma, Synchrony
- Sponsor
- Northeastern University
- Ages
- 18 Years to 95 Years
- Dates
- First posted Jan 29, 2024 · updated Jul 10, 2025
Registry summary
This is a Stage I randomized, sham-controlled trial on the effects of multimodal musical stimulation on working memory in aging. Neurologically healthy older and younger adults will be tested on working memory and electroencephalography in the first randomized controlled trial of music as a form of brain stimulation, with multimodal musical stimulation and control stimulation conditions. Results will test the causal role of oscillatory mechanisms of the brain on cognition, and will lay the groundwork to the first musical, neurophysiologically targeted, brain-stimulation device for reversing cognitive decline in aging.
Sites (1)
- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States