Title :

Effects of music on autobiographical verbal narration in Alzheimer's disease

Author(s) :

EL Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Clément, Sylvain [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies [LNFP]
Fasotti, Luciano [Auteur]
Allain, Philippe [Auteur]

Journal title :

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volume number :

26

Pages :

p.691-700

Publication date :

2013

ISSN :

09116044

English keyword(s) :

Alzheimer's disease
Autobiographical memory
Empty words Grammatical complexity
Propositional density

English abstract : [en]

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting a beneficial effect of music exposure on autobiographical memory in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Our paper was aimed at revealing the linguistic characteristics of ...
Show more >There is a growing body of evidence suggesting a beneficial effect of music exposure on autobiographical memory in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Our paper was aimed at revealing the linguistic characteristics of these music-evoked autobiographical narrations. Eighteen AD patients and 18 healthy controls produced autobiographical narration in silence and after being exposed to their own-chosen music. Compared to the autobiographical narrations evoked in silence, music-evoked autobiographical narrations of AD patients included fewer empty words and were characterized by higher grammatical complexity and propositional density. These results provide support for the notion that music exposure may overcome neurolinguistic limitations in AD patients.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

• Autres travaux scientifiques

Submission date :

2020-09-14T10:32:43Z
2023-05-04T09:10:08Z