Unraveling the complexities of educational and socioeconomic factors in cognitive decline with an AI model
Paola Ruiz Puentes, Nestor González, Daniel Crovo, Beatriz Grimaldi, Ram Mukunda · 2025
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Paola Ruiz Puentes, Nestor González, Daniel Crovo, Beatriz Grimaldi, and Ram Mukunda used AI to untangle schooling, wealth, and cognitive decline in 2025. High education is widely seen to shield the aging brain. Yet schooling is tangled with culture and income, and studies clash.
Data came from a Mexican aging study of adults over fifty, with detailed thinking tests in two waves. A random forest and a transformer model were trained to predict screening scores from life history, health, and care use. Living conditions, not schooling alone, may carry much of the effect, the authors suggest. The models aim to sort which factors flag risk, toward fairer prevention in settings where schooling is scarce.
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| CREATOR | Paola Ruiz Puentes, Nestor González, Daniel Crovo, Beatriz Grimaldi, Ram Mukunda |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |