What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Aging

Treatments: Behavioral: Mental Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05550779

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

2023-023

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 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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 109 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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109 participants in 2 patient groups

Mental Exercise A

Experimental group

Description:

Participants follow instructions on a 10-minute audio clip

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mental Exercise

Mental Exercise B

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants follow instructions on a 10-minute audio clip

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mental Exercise