Predicting Working Memory in Healthy Older Adults Using Real-Life Language and Social Context Information: A Machine Learning Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Language use and social interactions have demonstrated a close relationship with cognitive measures. It is important to improve the understanding of language use and behavioral indicators from social context to study the early prediction of cognitive decline among healthy populations of older adults.

Objective

This study aimed at predicting an important cognitive ability, working memory, of 98 healthy older adults participating in a 4-day-long naturalistic observation study. We used linguistic measures, part-of-speech (POS) tags, and social context information extracted from 7450 real-life audio recordings of their everyday conversations.

Methods

The methods in this study comprise (1) the generation of linguistic measures, representing idea density, vocabul

SUBMITTER: Ferrario A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8941438 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature