NCT05066750

What Makes People Better at Retrieving Difficult Words?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 170 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Healthy Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindful breathing	Participants watch a 10 minute mindful breathing video
BEHAVIORAL	Control video	Participants watch a 10 minute control video

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-23
• Primary completion: 2022-09-20
• Completion: 2022-11-01
• First posted: 2021-10-04
• Last updated: 2024-04-12
• Results posted: 2024-04-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States