Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03228446
The Effects of Attentional Filter Training on Working Memory
Improving Cognitive Functions by Training Distractor Inhibition (DIIN) in Younger and Older Healthy Adults
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- Sponsor
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 80 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The investigators are interested in how attentional filter training/ distractor inhibition training could influence cognitive functions like working memory, executive control, problem solving, decision making and attentional control.
Detailed description
Two different computer based trainings were applied: an attentional filter training and a working memory training.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | filter training | one-week filter training on the computer: computerized visual change detection experiment (selective attention ) |
| BEHAVIORAL | memory training | one-week storage training on the computer: computerized visual change detection experiment (memory storage) |
| OTHER | no training (control) | no training applied |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2012-09-26
- Primary completion
- 2018-12-01
- Completion
- 2019-01-01
- First posted
- 2017-07-25
- Last updated
- 2019-02-15
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03228446. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.