NCT05506852

Using Teleneuropsychology to Optimize Cognition in Healthy Aging: the Web-based Breakfast Game

Training Executive Control in Cognitively Healthy Aging: the Web-based Breakfast Game

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: Columbia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Executive control processes involve initiate, coordinate, synchronize, and regulate elemental cognitive functions for the conduct of goal-directed behavior. The proposed research investigates whether exposure to a web-based training protocol designed to enhance executive control processes will improve cognitive performance in cognitively healthy older adults.

Detailed description

The proposed research investigates whether exposure to a web-based training protocol designed to enhance executive control / multi-tasking abilities will improve cognitive performance in healthy older adults. Cognitively normal adults aged 60-75 will be randomized into two experimental groups: 1) Web-based game with training strategy; 2) Web-based game without training strategy (Active Control). All participants (groups 1 and 2) will be instructed to play the complex, high-demand online game, Breakfast Game, for 14 one-hour sessions over 5 weeks.

Conditions

• Healthy Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Web-based training strategy	Participants will undergo a web-based training protocol where they will play an online game that simulates a breakfast environment and will perform everyday activities as "cooking" and "setting tables" in a multi-tasking fashion. Participants will learn to play the game using specific strategies, in order to optimize the performance.
BEHAVIORAL	Web-based regular training (no strategy)	Participants will undergo a web-based training protocol where they will play an online game that simulates a breakfast environment and will perform everyday activities as "cooking" and "setting tables" in a multi-tasking fashion. Participants will learn to play the game under regular game instructions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-17
• Primary completion: 2024-07-30
• Completion: 2024-07-30
• First posted: 2022-08-18
• Last updated: 2026-03-19
• Results posted: 2026-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States