Attention Training

Attention Clinical Trial

Official title:

Attention Training

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01518738
• Other study ID #: SE-2011-0123
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 13, 2012
• Last updated: June 3, 2014
• Start date: February 2012
• Est. completion date: November 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2014
• Source: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to understand whether attention training is effective in moderating mind wandering.

Description:

Our subjective worlds are built from those things in our internal and external environments that capture our attention. Environments can be ambiguous with respect to which objects are most important for our attention, and the characteristics of stimuli that allow them to dominate attention are thus of great interest. Self-relevant objects, such as internally generated experience (e.g. thought), may receive substantial attention, but research on this dimension has been hampered by the difficulty of measuring such objects experimentally. The proposed study seeks to make headway in this area using several behavioral (accuracy, response time, response pattern) measures, with the hypothesis that internally generated experience will vie for attention in a way reflected by behavior. Such research will extend previous work the investigators' lab has done studying stimulus parameters that influence attention, and as a whole may present a more complete picture of how objects and attention interact to shape our worlds.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 94
• Est. completion date: November 2012
• Est. primary completion date: November 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-English speakers

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be able to use a computer

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attention

Intervention

Behavioral:
• breath attention training
4 week training
• working memory attention training
4 week training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Wisconsin Brogden Psychology Building	Madison	Wisconsin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	change in mind wandering frequency after intervention	mind wandering will be assessed with self-report to intermittent queries such as "just now, was your attention on the present task or unrelated concerns?" Frequency of endorsement will serve as a measure of frequency of mind wandering (ranging in units from 0 - 100% of the time).	before intervention and up to 100 weeks later	No