Abstract-A preliminary study by Sneddon et al. (2005) using visual working memory tasks coupled with quantified EEG (qEEG) analysis distinguished mild dementia subjects from normal aging ones with a high degree of accuracy. The present study hypothesizes that a simpler task such as having a subject count backwards mentally by ones can be coupled with qEEG to yield a similar degree of accuracy for classifying early dementia. The study focuses on participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and includes both a delayed visual match-tosample (working memory) task and a counting backwards task (eyes closed) for comparison. The counting backwards protocol included 15 normal aging and 11 MCI participants, and the working memory task included 9 normal aging and 7 MCI individuals. The EEG data were quantified using Tsallis entropy, and the brain regions analyzed included the prefrontal cortex, occipital lobe, and the posterior parietal cortex. The
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