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Alzheimer's Disease assessment embedded in the
creative act of music composition. A non-profit
research project of the MIT Media Laboratory.

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CogNotes: Embedding Healthcare in Everyday Life

Disease Assessment can be part of your everyday, creative, and rewarding life.  You can be the manager of your own health information as part of the activities you love.  With CogNotes, new music composition tools become platforms for cognitive assessment.  …

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Novel Tests for Alzheimer’s Disease.

Everyday experiences are constructed from physical and cognitive elements that are often relevant to health and disease process.  I’ve researched new avenues for Alzheimer’s Disease testing that utilize auditory visualspatial memory to draw assessment into music.   When a user …

hyperscore

Music Composition

Hyperscore is a graphical music composition environment that lets anyone dive in and create music while encouraging individual expression.  Now, with addition of the CogNotes tool, your composition work gains meaning as an index into your cognitive health.   Designed …

Cognitive Metrics in Creative Work

The Science

The Science

Posted on September 8, 2011

Knowing a bit about the Alzheimer’s Disease progression and the kinds of cognitive faculties that are affected in the earliest phases of the disease, I picked a metric that would target paired associative memory.  Embedded healthcare is possible because the elements of many everyday environments (game environments, social environments, mobile environments) are built from elements relevant to cognitive and physical health. …

Hyperscore

Hyperscore

Posted on September 8, 2011

Hyperscore is a graphical music composition environment that lets anyone dive in and create music while encouraging individual expression. Now, with the addition of the CogNotes tool, your composition work gains meaning as an index into your cognitive health. …

Community

Community

Posted on September 8, 2011

The pieces of this project assemble to create a community of composers.  In the past Hyperscore has been highly effective at engaging enormous groups of people to seize the creative opportunity. From kids to college students, seniors, and residential hospital members, anyone can compose.  Now, as cognitive assessment becomes part of the process, communities become proactive managers of their own health information within an empowering environment.  …

@Lincoln Park

Video: CogNotes Mentor Workshop

Posted on February 29, 2012

  A major part of the CogNotes project is engaging multiple generations to form a community of creative individuals.  This video is taken from our first major workshop at the Lincoln Park …

CogNotes Launches

CogNotes Launches

Posted on February 28, 2012

  The CogNotes project has launched.  8 weeks from now, we’ll have 19 newly minted composers, music, and a well-spring of cognitive data to match. The project runs at one of the …

About Lincoln Park

Posted on September 8, 2011

Located in Midland, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Park is a community school that is redefining “community.” Through the creative opportunities it offers to its students, to local residents, to Western Pennsylvania citizens, and to …

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