- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03832101
Improvement of Facial Recognition Ability and Multitasking
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
There has been evidence showing improvements on performance on various cognitive tasks after training, but evidence on multitasking and facial recognition is lacking. Both multi-tasking and facial recognition are crucial for military and law enforcement personnel, and the respective organizations can consider these abilities during their respective recruitment and training processes.
This study will test whether training on multi-tasking and facial recognition tasks can improve an individual's performance. Additionally, it will test whether their performance on other measures of attention and multitasking can predict changes post-training.
Participants will go through 5 testing sessions span over 5 days. For each session, participants will complete a multitasking task and a facial recognition task. Participants are hypothesized to improve in their performance after 5 consecutive days of training on these 2 tasks. Additionally, participants will also complete 2 attention tasks, 1 face memory task, and 1 other multi-tasking task only on the first day. Both multitasking tasks are expected to correlate at baseline, and performance on the attention tasks may predict performance on multitasking tasks as these tasks require sustained and selective attention. A face memory task will also be used to account for each individual's baseline facial recognition ability.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Christopher L Asplund, Ph.D.
- Phone Number: +65660 3327
- Email: chris.asplund@yale-nus.edu.sg
Study Locations
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Singapore, Singapore
- Recruiting
- National University of Singapore
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Contact:
- Christopher L Asplund, Ph.D.
- Phone Number: +6566013327
- Email: chris.asplund@yale-nus.edu.sg
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants must be over 21 if they are not from NUS or Yale-NUS. NUS or Yale-NUS students over 18 can also participate. All participants are expected to be fluent in English.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participants with a history of perceptual or memory deficit will be excluded.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Basic Science
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Difficult face discrimination
All participants will complete 5 training and testing sessions in total, once a day, over the course of a week (weekdays).
On the first day, participants will go through an initial test (Cambridge Face Memory Test; approximately 15 minutes) to determine their baseline facial recognition ability.
Thereafter, participants in the Difficult group will undergo training involving discriminations between highly similar faces.
Each participant's involvement in the study will last only 5 consecutive days.
The total participation time is 7.5 hours per participant.
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MATB has two multitasking tasks and two attention tasks.
The two multitasking tasks evaluates performance on multiple cognitively demanding assignments in both the auditory and visual domains.
The two attention tasks measures performance in sustained and selective attention
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Experimental: Easy face discrimination
All participants will complete 5 training and testing sessions in total, once a day, over the course of a week (weekdays).
On the first day, participants will go through an initial test (Cambridge Face Memory Test; approximately 15 minutes) to determine their baseline facial recognition ability.
Those in the Easy group will discriminate between dissimilar faces.
Each participant's involvement in the study will last only 5 consecutive days.
The total participation time is 7.5 hours per participant.
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MATB has two multitasking tasks and two attention tasks.
The two multitasking tasks evaluates performance on multiple cognitively demanding assignments in both the auditory and visual domains.
The two attention tasks measures performance in sustained and selective attention
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Active Comparator: Control
All participants will complete 5 training and testing sessions in total, once a day, over the course of a week (weekdays).
On the first day, participants will go through an initial test (Cambridge Face Memory Test; approximately 15 minutes) to determine their baseline facial recognition ability.
Those in the Control group will perform a simple face-matching exercise.
This training will last for approximately 30 minutes.
Each participant's involvement in the study will last only 5 consecutive days.
The total participation time is 7.5 hours per participant.
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MATB has two multitasking tasks and two attention tasks.
The two multitasking tasks evaluates performance on multiple cognitively demanding assignments in both the auditory and visual domains.
The two attention tasks measures performance in sustained and selective attention
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Facial recognition performance change during training
Time Frame: Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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The crucial measure is percent correct recognition of target faces learned on the first day.
These faces are either presented in isolation (Is this a target face?
Yes/No) or with other faces (Which is the target?).
Performance is measured on each day of training to establish learning trajectories.
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Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Multi-tasking performance change during training
Time Frame: Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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The crucial measures are speed and accuracy on each component task of the MATB (Multi-Attribute Task Battery; Comstock & Arnegard, 1992).
Performance is measured on each day of training to establish learning trajectories.
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Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- S-17-180
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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