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Geolocation Positional System (GPS) Experience

Individual Differences in Emotional and Behavioral Patterns and Their Relationship to Cognition

Who can join

Ages 18 to 50 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* Must agree to give informed consent
* Must be willing to have an functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scan
* Must be able to receive and respond to daily text messages assessing current emotion
* Must be willing to download and run a GPS tracking application (FollowMee) onto their smartphone for a four-month period

Exclusion Criteria:

* history of head trauma, seizures, or neurological disorders
* severe/unstable medical conditions
* conditions that interfere with MRI
* pregnancy
* lifetime psychotic/bipolar disorder
* chronic/severe substance or alcohol abuse/dependence
* antipsychotic medication

About the study

The purpose of this study is to use smartphone technology to capture individual location emotional and cognitive data, to examine how real-world behaviors thoughts, emotions, and brain activity are related to one another.

What is being tested

• Modifying Exploration (behavioral)

Sponsor: University of Miami · Participants: 100 · Started: Nov 2, 2023

Contact the study team

• Isabella C D'Ottone, BA · Phone: 3052849555

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05991713

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Anhedonia
• Depression

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.