Musical and Verbal Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: A Study of Long-Term and Short-Term Memory

Autor/inn/en	Menard, Marie-Claude; Belleville, Sylvie
Titel	Musical and Verbal Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: A Study of Long-Term and Short-Term Memory
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 71 (2009) 1, S.38-45 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2009.03.008
Schlagwörter	Alzheimers Disease; Patients; Control Groups; Older Adults; Music; Short Term Memory; Long Term Memory; Recognition (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Patient; Älterer Erwachsener; Musik; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Langzeitgedächtnis; Recognition; Wiedererkennen
Abstract	Musical memory was tested in Alzheimer patients and in healthy older adults using long-term and short-term memory tasks. Long-term memory (LTM) was tested with a recognition procedure using unfamiliar melodies. Short-term memory (STM) was evaluated with same/different judgment tasks on short series of notes. Musical memory was compared to verbal memory using a task that used pseudowords (LTM) or syllables (STM). Results indicated impaired musical memory in AD patients relative to healthy controls. The deficit was found for both long-term and short-term memory. Furthermore, it was of the same magnitude for both musical and verbal domains whether tested with short-term or long-term memory tasks. No correlation was found between musical and verbal LTM. However, there was a significant correlation between verbal and musical STM in AD participants and healthy older adults, which suggests that the two domains may share common mechanisms. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10