What Makes People Better at Retrieving Difficult Words?

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Aging

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindful breathing; Behavioral: Control video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05066750

R15AG063111-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2020-005

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce words in response to definitions. Participants will watch a video, then see definitions and try to come up with a word that fits each one. Participants will also complete some surveys and other measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and setting in which word retrieval occurs relate to the ability to produce individual words.

Full description

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce words in response to definitions. Adult participants ages 18-30 and 65-80 will participate in videoconference calls during which a video is shown and definitions are presented. Participants will try to come up with a word that fits each definition, and then complete some surveys, including some about anxiety, mindfulness, attention, vocabulary, and demographics. Participation will take approximately 1.25 hours. Collected data will be de-identified, and the aggregate data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and setting in which word retrieval occurs relate to peoples' ability to produce individual words.

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• fluent speakers of English ages 18-30 or ages 65-80

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindful breathing video

Experimental group

Description:

Participants watch a 10 minute mindful breathing video

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful breathing

Control video

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants watch a 10 minute control video

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control video