O3‐05‐05: Cognitive Reserve Modulates Encoding‐Related Neural Response after Memory Training in Individuals with Subjective Cognitive Decline
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Abstract
A target population for cognitive intervention is individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) as they are at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and are complaining about their memory. An important research question is whether the efficacy of cognitive training and underlying brain mechanisms differ from one person to the other. The concept of cognitive reserve which refers to the individuals’ own brain ability to cope against neuropathologic changes may contribute to these differences. One hypothesis is that cognitive reserve has a positive effect on cerebral plasticity that is induced by training. The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether the effect of cognitive training on the brain varies as a function of cognitive reserve in persons with SCD. Twenty-nine older adults with SCD were trained to use an imagery-based strategy, the method of loci, during six one-hour sessions. Neural activity during memory encoding was recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging before Session 1, after Session 3 and after Session 6. The formal educational level was used to divide participants into those with higher and lower cognitive reserve. High-educated participants showed more memory improvement than those with low education. A 2 (group) by 3 (time) ANOVA also revealed distinct patterns of brain activity changes. After training, high-educated participants showed reduced encoding-related activity in the left superior temporal gyrus whereas low-educated participants showed increased activity in the right superior frontal gyrus. The activation changes in high-educated participants is consistent with a shift from a verbal-based to an image-based encoding within a network specialized for memory. In turn, the increased activation of the prefrontal regions in low-educated participants suggests that the recruitment of active controlled processes is needed to deploy the learned strategy. All together, these results suggest that cognitive reserve might potentialize the effect of cognitive intervention in individuals with SCD by maintaining the specialized network for memory more responsive to training.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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