Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

University of Minnesota

Code:

NCT05736471

Conditions

Depression

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Computational dissociation of the causes of cognitive rigidity in depression

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study will provide data for evaluating the psychometric characteristics of the tests assessing cognitive flexibility, including their (1) internal consistency, (2) feasibility and tolerability, their (3) convergent and discriminant validity of cognitive and affective constructs such as those introduced to understand mental disorders, and (4) sensitivity (and correspondence) to individual differences. For these tests to be useful in studying clinical conditions, they must show adequate reliability, validity, and sensitivity in large samples of convenience.

Conditions

Depression

Study ID

NCT05736471

Start date

Feb 15, 2023

Status verified date

May, 2026

Completion date

May 2, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

May 2, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adults 18 years or older
  • English-speaking
  • Live in the U.S.
  • Have access to an internet connected computer
  • Users of the mTurk and Prolific survey website

Exclusion Criteria:

  • NA

Study Design

Enrollment

2500 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Test Group

involves a single testing session with surveys and tasks relevant to the experiment involving behavioral tasks and self-report questions through an online crowd-sourcing platform

Interventions

Computational dissociation of the causes of cognitive rigidity in depression

involves a single testing session with surveys and tasks relevant to the experiment involving behavioral tasks and self-report questions through an online crowd-sourcing platform

Primary outcome measure

  • Relationship of cognitive rigidity to depressive symptoms [ Time Frame: 1 hour ]
  • Relationship between environmental volatility and cognitive rigidity [ Time Frame: 1 hour ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Matthew Maple

612-946-1424maple036@umn.edu

Locations

University of Minnesota

Recruiting

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455

Contacts

Matthew Maple

612-946-1424maple036@umn.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Minnesota

Last update posted

May 19, 2026

Last verified

May, 2026

Keywords

  • Cognitive rigidity
  • Foraging
  • Exploration-Exploitation

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Minnesota on 2026-05-19.