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EnglishEducation may play a key role in developing “cognitive reserve” against neurodegenerative dementia. In this work, we investigate for the first time if handwriting dynamics can serve as a quantitative indicator of this reserve. We carried out an exploratory study involving a sample of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects, with high and low education respectively, and a sample of healthy elder controls. We asked them to perform three complex handwriting tasks on a digitizing tablet: drawing a clock; copying a check; writing a spontaneous sentence. Dynamic measures of the handwriting were then analyzed both with an unsupervised and a supervised machine learning approach. The results we obtained suggest that: (i) handwriting of MCI subjects with high reserve is quite similar to that of controls; (ii) handwriting of MCI subjects with lower reserve is easier to be distinguished from the other two. Dynamic handwriting analysis could provide a novel methodology to elucidate the still unknown mechanisms underlying brain resilience.
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| Titolo: | Handwriting Dynamics as an Indicator of Cognitive Reserve: An Exploratory Study |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2019 |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11586/243252 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7281-4568-6 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |
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