Attention Training

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01518738

Enrollment

Registered

2012-01-26

Start date

2012-02-29

Completion date

2012-11-30

Last updated

2014-06-05

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Conditions

Attention

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to understand whether attention training is effective in moderating mind wandering.

Detailed description

Our subjective worlds are built from those things in our internal and external environments that capture our attention. Environments can be ambiguous with respect to which objects are most important for our attention, and the characteristics of stimuli that allow them to dominate attention are thus of great interest. Self-relevant objects, such as internally generated experience (e.g. thought), may receive substantial attention, but research on this dimension has been hampered by the difficulty of measuring such objects experimentally. The proposed study seeks to make headway in this area using several behavioral (accuracy, response time, response pattern) measures, with the hypothesis that internally generated experience will vie for attention in a way reflected by behavior. Such research will extend previous work the investigators' lab has done studying stimulus parameters that influence attention, and as a whole may present a more complete picture of how objects and attention interact to shape our worlds.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALbreath attention training

4 week training

BEHAVIORALworking memory attention training

4 week training

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Exclusion criteria

* Non-English speakers Inclusion Criteria: * Must be able to use a computer

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
change in mind wandering frequency after intervention	before intervention and up to 100 weeks later	mind wandering will be assessed with self-report to intermittent queries such as just now, was your attention on the present task or unrelated concerns? Frequency of endorsement will serve as a measure of frequency of mind wandering (ranging in units from 0 - 100% of the time).

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026