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Comment
. 2020 Aug 10:43:e157.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000126.

Implications for technological reserve development in advancing age, cognitive impairment, and dementia

Jared F Benge  1 , Michael K Scullin  2
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Implications for technological reserve development in advancing age, cognitive impairment, and dementia

Jared F Benge et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

This commentary draws connections between technological culture emergence and recent trends in using assistive technology to reduce the burden of Alzheimer's disease. By the technical-reasoning hypothesis, cognitively-impaired individuals will lack the cognitive ability to employ technologies. By the technological reserve hypothesis, social-motivational and cultural transmissibility factors can provide foundations for using technology as cognitive prosthetics even during neurodegenerative illnesses.

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