Psychometric Testing: Cued vs. Learned Suppression

Lehigh University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral Measurement and self-report

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06074523

9R15EY030247-01A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this line of research, the researchers are examining whether performance on a cued attentional suppression (ignoring) task is related to performance on a learned attentional suppression task. In addition, these measures are related to the capacity of working memory and every day inattentive traits.

Full description

This is a behavioral study. The researchers will measures performance on multiple tasks. 1) a cued attentional suppression task, where participants are told the color of the item they are supposed to ignore on each trial. 2) a learned attentional suppression task, where participants learn over experience that a particular color is not the target. 3) a visual working memory capacity measurement 4) an inattentive trait report task, where participants report their experiences of inattention during their daily lives.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Normal or corrected-to-normal visual acuity, normal color vision

Exclusion criteria

• age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 1 patient group

Attention and Working Memory Tests

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will complete a series of behavioral tasks, including cued visual search with positive (target color), negative (distractor color) and neutral (baseline) cues, learned visual search with a repeated salient distractor color, a visual working memory capacity task, and a daily life inattentive traits questionnaire (self-report). Single Arm.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral Measurement and self-report