Associations Between Smartphone-Based Finger Tapping and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults: Observational Study

Huitong Ding   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Taylor A Orwig   ³ , MS ;   Jian Rong   ⁴ , PhD ;   Heaven Y Tatere   ³ , MD ;   Chunyu Liu   ⁵ , PhD ;   Eric Schramm   ⁶ , PharmD ;   Chathurangi H Pathiravasan   ⁷ , PhD ;   Joanne M Murabito   ^{2, 8 *} , MD, ScM ;   Honghuang Lin   ^{3 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

² The Framingham Heart Study, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁴ Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Care Evolution, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁷ Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁸ Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally