What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

Healthy Aging Clinical Trial

Official title:

What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05550779
• Other study ID #: 2023-023
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

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 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 102
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: March 23, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• fluent speaker of English

• ages 18-35 or 60-80

• lived in the United States for at least 5 years

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Aging

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Mental Exercise
Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	UCCS	Colorado Springs	Colorado

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Name retrieval performance	Percent of trials with correct responses and percent of trials that are name retrieval failures will be measured on a task created for this purpose. Specifically, participants will try to provide names that fit photographs, indicating when a name gets stuck on the "tip of their tongue"	During the 60-75 minute experimental session