What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

NCT ID: NCT05550779

Last Updated: 2024-09-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

109 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-01

Study Completion Date

2023-05-26

Brief Summary

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This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce names of pictured people. Participants will perform a brief mental exercise, then see 83 celebrity photographs to produce the names of. Participants will also complete other surveys and measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how different variables relate to proper name production.

Detailed Description

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This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce names of pictured people. Adult participants ages 18-35 and 60-80 will participant in videoconference calls during which they will perform a brief mental exercise, then see 83 celebrity photographs with instructions to name each pictured person. The naming task will be video recorded for later scoring. Participants will also complete other surveys and measures, including some about demographics and other personal characteristics. Participation will take approximately 60-75 minutes. Collected will be de-identified and the aggregate data will give researchers a better understanding about how individual's personality and cognitive traits and the mental exercise performed before the study relate to people's proper name production.

Conditions

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Healthy Aging

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants are randomly assigned to one of two mental exercises before performing a proper name production task and completing other measures.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Participants do not know which condition they are in, nor that there is another condition. They only know what mental exercise they will do in their assigned condition.

Study Groups

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Mental Exercise A

Participants follow instructions on a 10-minute audio clip

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mental Exercise

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise

Mental Exercise B

Participants follow instructions on a 10-minute audio clip

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Mental Exercise

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise

Interventions

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Mental Exercise

Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* fluent speaker of English
* ages 18-35 or 60-80
* lived in the United States for at least 5 years

Exclusion Criteria

\-
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Lori James

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Lori James, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Locations

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UCCS

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

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R15AG063111-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

2023-023

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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