NCT05550779

What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 109 (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 produce names of pictured people. Participants will perform a brief mental exercise, then see 83 celebrity photographs to produce the names of. Participants will also complete other surveys and measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how different variables relate to proper name production.

Detailed description

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce names of pictured people. Adult participants ages 18-35 and 60-80 will participant in videoconference calls during which they will perform a brief mental exercise, then see 83 celebrity photographs with instructions to name each pictured person. The naming task will be video recorded for later scoring. Participants will also complete other surveys and measures, including some about demographics and other personal characteristics. Participation will take approximately 60-75 minutes. Collected will be de-identified and the aggregate data will give researchers a better understanding about how individual's personality and cognitive traits and the mental exercise performed before the study relate to people's proper name production.

Conditions

• Healthy Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mental Exercise	Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-26
• Completion: 2023-05-26
• First posted: 2022-09-22
• Last updated: 2024-09-19
• Results posted: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States