The Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Age-related Distractibility

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

200

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 11, 2023

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2027

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2027

Conditions
AgingAlzheimer Disease
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Tablet based adaptive multimodal attention practice program

An adaptive at-home tablet-based program that includes variants of the Flanker Task, the Stroop Task, and a Visual Tracking Task. Each session of practice will include up to ten minutes with each of these task types, and the tasks will increase in difficulty in a way that further taxes attention (such as through more distractors or more incongruent trials) as participant performance improves.

BEHAVIORAL

Tablet based adaptive criterion task practice program

An adaptive, at-home tablet-based variant of the criterion task, that is, the selective attention/distraction task used during the scanning portion of the human participant portions of the study, that takes up to 25 minutes to complete each session.

Trial Locations (1)

24061

RECRUITING

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

OTHER