NCT05444114

What Makes People Better at Describing Photographs?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 182 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to provide verbal descriptions of photographs. Participants will perform a brief mental exercise, then see three photographs with instructions to describe each thoroughly. Participants will also complete several other surveys and measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how different variables relate to speech production.

Detailed description

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the the ability to provide verbal descriptions of photographs. Adult participants ages 18-30 and 65-80 will participate in videoconference calls during which they perform a brief mental exercise, then see three photographs with instructions to describe each thoroughly. Descriptions are to be 30 to 60 seconds in length and are audio recorded for later scoring. Participants will also complete several other surveys and measures, including some about anxiety, mindfulness, vocabulary, and demographics. Participation will take approximately 40 to 60 minutes. Collected data will be de-identified, and the aggregate data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and the mental exercise performed before the study relate to peoples' speech production performance.

Conditions

• Healthy Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mental Exercise	Participants perform a 10 minute mental exercise that is either mindful breathing or listening to a story

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-22
• Primary completion: 2023-05-23
• Completion: 2023-05-23
• First posted: 2022-07-05
• Last updated: 2024-08-22
• Results posted: 2024-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States