NCT04905849

Enhancing Cognitive Control Abilities Using Mobile Technology in a Senior Living Community

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of launching a personalized digital health assessment and remediation program for the older adults in senior living communities based upon an initial characterization of these abilities. Evidence of feasibility here using these unique methodological approaches would provide empirical evidence supporting the basis for a larger-scale implementation of such digital health technologies into less controlled senior settings.

Conditions

• Aging
• Cognitive Change

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Adaptive Cognitive Control Trainer (ACCT)	Module 1: Attention=\> This module demands an active scan of the screen in search for a target, much like traditional visual search tasks. Participants quickly identify the direction that a probe target is facing (up, down, left, right), and are aided by the presence of directional cue indicating where the location of the target will appear. Module 2: Goal Management=\> Requires participants to rapidly switch their focus based on distinct rules. Participants are presented with exemplar objects along with a target, and are asked to indicate which exemplar presented is most like the target. Module 3: Working Memory=\> Engages spatial working memory resources similar to the Corsi block task. Participants memorize the location of objects on screen followed by a 5-7 second delay period, with a correct response leading to a greater number of potential targets to be memorized on the next trial (and vice versa).
BEHAVIORAL	Active Control App	The app used here is undergoing expectancy-matching at the present time, will be updated with the final app characteristics when completed out of a list of several possibilities

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-10-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2021-05-28
• Last updated: 2025-07-03
• Results posted: 2025-07-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States