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A Language-Based Training Intervention to Enhance Cognitive Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Led by National Taiwan University Hospital · Updated on 2026-01-07
120
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
173 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
A Language-Based Training Intervention to Enhance Cognitive Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Aged between 20 and 30 (healthy young adults) or aged 65 and above (healthy older adults)
- Native Mandarin Chinese speakers who had no exposure to non-indigenous languages before the age of five
- Completed at least junior high school level education
- Right-handed
- Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision
- Able to fully participate in all assessments and intervention sessions with no more than two absences
- Achieved a score of 23 or higher on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
You will not qualify if you...
- Participation in another cognitive intervention program within the past two months
- Cognitive intervention is not feasible due to dyslexia or physical illness
- Diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or dementia
- Severe depression or cognitive changes from psychiatric, neurological disorders, or substance abuse with unstable symptoms
- History of brain injury or neurological conditions such as stroke or aneurysm
- Contraindications for MRI such as metal implants, pacemakers, or pregnancy
- Claustrophobia or fear of enclosed spaces
- Unable to undergo cognitive assessments due to visual or hearing impairments
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan, 106319
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Research Team
C
Chia-Lin Lee, Ph.D.
CONTACT
C
Chia-Lin Lee, Ph.D.
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
3
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