Enhancing Cognitive Abilities With Comprehensive Training

Overview

The purpose of this study is to measure the efficacy of an online cognitive training program against an active control condition in a large, randomized trial.

Full Title of Study: “Enhancing Cognitive Abilities With Comprehensive Training: A Large, Online, Randomized, Active-Controlled Trial”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Masking: Single (Participant)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: April 2014

Detailed Description

The present study aims to evaluate a targeted, progressively challenging, online cognitive training program comprised of 49 distinct exercises targeting a variety of cognitive capacities. The cognitive training program will be compared to a plausibly beneficial active control condition in which participants completed online crossword puzzles. The investigators hypothesize that the cognitive training will show greater transfer to a range of underlying cognitive abilities than the active control, as measured by a broad battery of neuropsychological assessments and participant-reported outcomes.

Interventions

  • Other: Lumosity Cognitive Training
    • adaptive online cognitive training
  • Other: Crossword Puzzles
    • timed online crossword puzzles

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: Cognitive Training
    • Lumosity cognitive training program.
  • Active Comparator: Crossword Puzzles
    • Timed online crossword puzzles

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Aggregate Cognitive Performance
    • Time Frame: Baseline to 10 weeks
    • Aggregate cognitive performance, as measured by Grand Index, on seven neuropsychological assessments (Forward Memory Span, Reverse Memory Span, Grammatical Reasoning, Progressive Matrices, Go/No-Go, Arithmetic Reasoning, Two-Target Search)

Secondary Measures

  • Participant-Reported Outcomes
    • Time Frame: Baseline to 10 weeks
    • 9 questions related to everyday cognition and emotional status.
  • Individual Neuropsychological Assessments composite
    • Time Frame: Baseline to 10 weeks
    • Separate analyses of changes on each of the seven neuropsychological assessments in the battery (Forward Memory Span, Reverse Memory Span, Grammatical Reasoning, Progressive Matrices, Go/No-Go, Arithmetic Reasoning, Two-Target Search).

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Engaged with the Lumosity program at least 3 days in the first week after sign-up – Access to an internet enabled computer to complete training Exclusion Criteria:

  • Paying subscriber

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: 80 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Lumos Labs, Inc.
  • Collaborator
    • Wheaton College
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Daniel Sternberg, PhD, Principal Investigator, Lumos Labs, Inc.

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