Attention Training

NCT ID: NCT01518738

Last Updated: 2014-06-05

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

94 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-02-29

Study Completion Date

2012-11-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to understand whether attention training is effective in moderating mind wandering.

Detailed Description

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Our subjective worlds are built from those things in our internal and external environments that capture our attention. Environments can be ambiguous with respect to which objects are most important for our attention, and the characteristics of stimuli that allow them to dominate attention are thus of great interest. Self-relevant objects, such as internally generated experience (e.g. thought), may receive substantial attention, but research on this dimension has been hampered by the difficulty of measuring such objects experimentally. The proposed study seeks to make headway in this area using several behavioral (accuracy, response time, response pattern) measures, with the hypothesis that internally generated experience will vie for attention in a way reflected by behavior. Such research will extend previous work the investigators' lab has done studying stimulus parameters that influence attention, and as a whole may present a more complete picture of how objects and attention interact to shape our worlds.

Conditions

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Attention

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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breath attention training

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

breath attention training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

4 week training

working memory attention training

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

working memory attention training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

4 week training

no training

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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breath attention training

4 week training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

working memory attention training

4 week training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Must be able to use a computer

Exclusion Criteria

* Non-English speakers
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Richard Davidson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Wisconsin Madison

Locations

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University of Wisconsin Brogden Psychology Building

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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SE-2011-0123

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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