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Development, Attention, and Inhibition Study

NCT06605001 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2026-04-15

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the associations of young children's early life experiences with delaying behaviors and links with later life outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Do experiences with waiting in early childhood predict delaying behavior in context-specific ways?
* Are links between delaying behavior and life outcomes impacted by social conventions, effort and choices around delaying, or other behaviors?

Participants will:

* Complete two delaying tasks with either a sweet or wrapped gift
* Complete three "Simon says"-like games that measure inhibition, cognitive flexibility and proactive control
* Answer a set of questions about academic readiness
* Answer a set of questions about social conventions
* Complete a waiting game on the computer while a camera records eye movements
* Parents will answer questions about their child's behaviors and experiences at home
* Participants will return after 1 year to repeat a subset of these measures

Conditions

  • The Ability to Delay Gratification

Interventions

OTHER

Delay of Gratification

Children will complete a delay of gratification task with 1 of 2 rewards

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, Davis

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rachel Foster, B.S. · University of California, Davis

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-08-21
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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