NCT05892419

Electrophysiological Signatures of Distinct Working Memory Subprocesses That Predict Long-term Memory Success

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 96 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Healthy young adults will view pictures of items while the investigators record electroencephalogram (EEG) brain activity. Then, the investigators will ask the participants to report which items the participants remember seeing. The investigators will examine how the measured brain activity relates to which pictures the participants remember.

Detailed description

Electrophysiological signatures track distinct subprocesses of working memory, including the number of items and the spatial locations of those items. By identifying how these subprocesses predict long-term memory success in healthy young adults, this project should lead to an intricate understanding of the relationship between working memory and long-term memory. This study will investigate when and how long-term memory failures arise, by using sophisticated machine learning analyses of neural data. Moreover, this study will test the extent to which the investigators can track working memory processes in real time and how the investigators can leverage that information to improve long-term memory success. This will inform basic theories of the relationship between working memory and long-term memory and motivate future applications.

Conditions

• Memory
• EEG

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention	There is no intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2024-07-31
• Completion: 2026-07-31
• First posted: 2023-06-07
• Last updated: 2023-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States