Effects of Attention on Dichotic Listening in Elderly and Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

Autor/inn/en	Bouma, Anke; Gootjes, Liselotte
Titel	Effects of Attention on Dichotic Listening in Elderly and Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 76 (2011) 2, S.286-293 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2011.02.008
Schlagwörter	Dementia; Older Adults; Patients; Human Body; Language Processing; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Alzheimers Disease; Lateral Dominance; Attention Control; Listening Skills; Auditory Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demenz; Älterer Erwachsener; Patient; Menschlicher Körper; Sprachverarbeitung; Hemisphärendominanz; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik
Abstract	This article presents an overview of our studies in elderly and Alzheimer patients employing Kimura's dichotic digits paradigm as a measure for left hemispheric predominance for processing language stimuli. In addition to structural brain mechanisms, we demonstrated that attention modulates the direction and degree of ear asymmetry in dichotic listening. Elderly showed increasingly more difficulties focusing attention on the left ear (LE) with advancing age. Alzheimer patients showed severe deficits to allocate attention to the LE, which could result in a right ear advantage. These results may be attributed to a breakdown of the cortical attentional network which is mediated by frontal (inhibitory control of attention) and parietal regions (spatial attention and "disengagement processes"). Both interhemispheric disconnectivity (callosal atrophy) and intrahemispheric disconnectivity (subcortical white matter lesions) appear to be important factors contributing to these findings. (Contains 1 table and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10