What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

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 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.

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 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.

Official Title
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What Makes People Better at Retrieving Proper Names?

Conditions
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Healthy Aging

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Mental Exercise


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: fluent speaker of English ages 18-35 or 60-80 lived in the United States for at least 5 years Exclusion Criteria: -

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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No

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 mental exercises before performing a proper name production task and completing other measures.
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Mental Exercise A<br>Participants follow instructions on a 10-minute audio clip | Behavioral: Mental Exercise<br>* Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise<br>|
| Active Comparator: Mental Exercise B<br>Participants follow instructions on a 10-minute audio clip | Behavioral: Mental Exercise<br>* Participant perform a 10-minute mental exercise<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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cognitive aging, name retrieval