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Cognitive Engagement and Aging Mind

NCT05924490 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 58

Last updated 2023-06-29

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Summary

The purpose of this research is to examine whether and to what extent training of different types of cognitive engagement will improve performance on fluid cognitive abilities that typically decline with age. The research covered by this protocol will use behavioral data that yield response latencies and accuracies of the untrained tasks, and brain activations in fMRI tasks, to test specific hypotheses about neural plasticity and cognitive plasticity from these engagement techniques. Hence, human subjects will be employed in an experiment lasting for 20 hours spanning over 2 months where they will either receive real-time strategy-based videogame training or crystallized intelligence training. In addition, long-term retention data will be obtained after 6 month post-training to investigate any long-term benefits.

Conditions

  • Age-related Cognitive Decline

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Real-time strategy-based videogame training

Rise of Nation is a complex strategy-based video game, in which individualized-adaptive feedbacks are constantly given to players based on their performance.

BEHAVIORAL

Semantic Knowledge training

Packages of various cross-word puzzles include word search, word ladder, and word wheel.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Texas at Dallas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chandramallika Basak, Ph.D. · The University of Texas at Dallas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-04-01
Completion
2018-10-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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