In collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, the Alan Turing Institute Almere has started a study on Cognitive Reserve in October 2010.The goal of this project is to obtain a reliable model that will make it possible to measure what makes someone unique on the basis of neural, behavioral and (potentially) genetic information. Traditional questionnaires and behavioral assessments have as a weakness that they are vulnerable to deceit (in the case of personality assessments). Furthermore, at best they measure acquired levels of performance, leaving open the question of potential and cognitive reserve.

Predicting individual differences on the basis of neural structures and activity

The proposed model will be based on individual differences in neural structures and activity. It will have none of these weaknesses and will have applications in the fields of:

1. Objective assessment of acquired and potential levels of performance.
2. Objective assessment of personality.
3. Objective assessment of developmental deficits.

 In the first part of the project a normative database of will be acquired. Parallel with this acquisition this data will be used to construct an agent model at the ATIA. This model will be validated with the second part of the dataset.