RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT07132281

A Language-Based Training Intervention to Enhance Cognitive Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

Enrollment

120 participants

Start Date

Sep 2, 2025

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Promoting Active Inference of Healthy Older Adults With Language Activity

Summary

Taiwan is fast approaching a super-aged society, making it urgent to bolster cognitive health in otherwise healthy older adults. This integrated project tackles that need with a language-centered intervention grounded in predictive-coding and active-inference theory. Over 12 weeks, community-dwelling adults aged 65 + join small-group reading-and-writing workshops that train them to actively predict, monitor, and revise linguistic information. Ninety volunteers are randomly allocated to an active language-prediction group, a passive reading group, or a hobby board-game control. Before and after the course, researchers collect behavioural tests, EEG, fMRI, and AI-based speech-language analytics to quantify gains and transfer effects across cognition, emotion, and daily function.

Eligibility

Min Age: 60 Years

Plain Language Summary

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This clinical trial is studying a behavioral approach called Board Games, a behavioral approach called Language activities active inference, and others for people with promoting active inference of healthy older adults with language activity. The study is currently recruiting participants at 1 location. People eligible for this study include aged 60 Years and older.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALLanguage activities active inference

Participants will join reading or writing activities and come up with their own inference about wording or plots.

BEHAVIORALLanguage activities passive

Participants will join reading or writing activities and will be given step-by-step explanations about the wording and plots.

BEHAVIORALBoard Games

Participants will play board games with each other.

Locations(1)

National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

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