What Makes People Better at Retrieving Difficult Words?

Healthy Aging Clinical Trial

Official title: What Makes People Better at Retrieving Difficult Words?

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce words in response to definitions. Participants will watch a video, then see definitions and try to come up with a word that fits each one. Participants will also complete some surveys and other measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and setting in which word retrieval occurs relate to the ability to produce individual words.

Clinical Trial Description

This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce words in response to definitions. Adult participants ages 18-30 and 65-80 will participate in videoconference calls during which a video is shown and definitions are presented. Participants will try to come up with a word that fits each definition, and then complete some surveys, including some about anxiety, mindfulness, attention, vocabulary, and demographics. Participation will take approximately 1.25 hours. Collected data will be de-identified, and the aggregate data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and setting in which word retrieval occurs relate to peoples' ability to produce individual words. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Aging

• NCT number: NCT05066750
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 23, 2021
• Completion date: November 1, 2022