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Older Age and Generalization

NCT07440017 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 360

Last updated 2026-06-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical is to learn how the brain supports different kinds of memory decisions in healthy young and older adults. The main question it seeks to answer is: Do older adults make memory decisions by integrating across experiences?

Young (aged 18-30 years) and older (aged 65-80 years) participants will complete a memory task while undergoing functional MRI to measure their brain responses.

Researchers will compare brain measures of integration in older adults to those of young adults to see if integration increases in older age.

Conditions

  • Aging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Memory decision type

Subjects will be probed to either remember an association they saw directly during the study phase or to make an inference across indirectly associated items.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Caitlin Bowman

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-15
Primary Completion
2029-12-01
Completion
2029-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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