ICOME · Individualised COgnitive and Motor learning for the Elderly
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-05-01 → 2023-01-28
- EU contribution
- €187,572
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Individualised COgnitive and Motor learning for the Elderly
Motor sequence learning in the elderly is crucial for improvement and maintenance of their motor function. Current motor learning programmes tend to neglect individual cognitive and motor differences, resulting in significantly varied improvements in motor function. The original goal of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individualised COgnitive and Motor learning for the Elderly (ICOME) project was to explore an efficient method that provides a personalised approach to motor sequence learning in the elderly. The work here is important as the EU in particularly is an aging society. More than 50% of the population is projected to be >65 years old by the year 2070 and the elderly have vastly different physical and mental capacities. Despite this, training approaches to maintain function has been largely fixed with no considerations of individual statuses. With the advent of greater computing power, there should be a several approaches to help plan and implement programs in an individualised manner. The approach in this project is therefore to pilot an individualised method, learning from the data and in combination with cognitive approaches plus training type modifications to increase motor learning gains. With this we can therefore provide one of the many ways that could help increase functional capacity in the elderly. The main scientific objectives and goals were to: (1) Development of a theoretical paradigm and propose testable hypotheses; (2) Uncover the cortical oscillatory dynamics of learning expertise in motor learning of the elderly; (3) Pilot test an individualised approach to increase motor learning gains in the elderly.
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Project objective
This project aims to create a method with high efficacy aimed at providing an individualised approach to motor sequence learning in elder adults. The current problem is that the provision of motor learning programs have little/no consideration of individual cognitive and motor differences, and therefore varying levels of improvements. The innovation is to provide a management solution to the ageing demographics across Europe by creating an evidence-based approach targeting cognitive and motor learning parameters for elder adults to improve their overall motor function using an ecological dancelike sequence learning task. We propose a three-stage approach to investigate and provide a viable solution. In the first stage, we will address historical and current theoretical issues with the quantification of motor learning development in elder adults. Addressing topics such as dynamical systems and the aggregation of performance analyses in the face of a large range of baseline physical differences in the elderly will shed new light in a theoretically driven perspective. In the second stage, we will create an integrated neurocognitive model of motor learning representation for the elderly using advanced supervised machine learning with real EEG and behavioural data. Lastly, we will create and pilot an individualised intervention based on the model in the second stage, that targets cognitive control using meditation, and physical parameters with progressive chunk scaling approaches to drive greater learning outcomes in a shorter timeframe for the elderly. The results from this project have the potential to change health management policies and future applications of advanced brain computer interfaces.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · EnschedeCoordinatorNetherlands
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