What Makes People Better at Retrieving Difficult Words?

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Detailed Description
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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.

Official Title
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What Makes People Better at Retrieving Difficult Words?

Conditions
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Healthy Aging

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Mindful breathing
* Behavioral: Control video


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: fluent speakers of English ages 18-30 or ages 65-80

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 80 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Basic Science
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: Participants are randomly assigned to one of two behavioral intervention conditions before performing a word retrieval task
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Mindful breathing video<br>Participants watch a 10 minute mindful breathing video | Behavioral: Mindful breathing<br>* Participants watch a 10 minute mindful breathing video<br>|
| Active Comparator: Control video<br>Participants watch a 10 minute control video | Behavioral: Control video<br>* Participants watch a 10 minute control video<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Word retrieval performance | Percent of trials with correct responses and percent of trials that are word retrieval failures will be measured on a task created for this purpose. Specifically, participants will try to provide words that best fit definitions, indicating when a word gets stuck on the tip of their tongue. | During the 1.25 hour experimental session | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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mindful breathing, anxiety, word retrieval