A theoretical and clinical account of music and aphasia

Merrett, Dawn L.; Zumbansen, Anna; Peretz, Isabelle

doi:10.1080/02687038.2018.1546468

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“…For example, compared to silence, setting text to melody (Ratovohery et al, 2018(Ratovohery et al, , 2019Samson & Zatorre, 1991;Serafine et al, 1986;Wallace, 1994) or playing background music (Ferreri et al, 2014) enhances word recall. Binding of musical tones to words through singing can also help aphasic patients retrieve and enunciate words and phrases (Kasdan & Kiran, 2018;Merrett et al, 2019;Schlaug et al, 2008Schlaug et al, , 2010. Further, music heard during certain 'sensitive periods' -youth and early adulthood in particular -may cue associations to nonmusical stimuli experienced around the same time (Krumhansl & Zupnick, 2013;Schubert, 2016).…”

Section: Music and Enhanced Memory Recallmentioning

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Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

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Bartlett²,

Kathios³

et al. 2020

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Familiar music facilitates memory retrieval in adults with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. This raises the possibility that music can be used as a rehabilitative tool to aid memory abilities more generally. However, the mechanisms behind this effect, and its generality, are unclear because of a lack of parallel work in healthy aging. In particular, exposure to familiar music enhances spontaneous recall of memories directly cued by the music, but it is unknown whether such effects extend to deliberate recall more generally — e.g., to memories not directly linked to the music being played. It is also unclear whether familiar music cues boost recall of specific episodes versus more generalized semantic memories, or whether its effects are partly driven by domain-general mechanisms (e.g., improved mood). In the current study, we will examine the effects of familiar music on deliberate recall and differentiate potential underlying mechanisms. We will expose healthy adults ages 65-80 years old (N = 75) to familiar music clips from earlier in life, unfamiliar music clips, and non-musical audio clips across three study sessions. Immediately after each clip, we will assess free recall of remote memories for pre-selected events. Those memories will then be scored for episodic and semantic details using the Autobiographical Interview. We hypothesize that familiar music may enhance recall of specific events, such that participants will recall more episodic details after exposure to familiar music than unfamiliar music or non-musical audio. We will also test a competing hypothesis that familiar music may prompt more general recollections of periods of life, and thus will increase recall of semantic details in comparison with the unfamiliar music and no-music conditions. The results of this study will advance knowledge of the mechanisms by which music affects memory, with potential implications for the use of music as a therapeutic device for declining memory.

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Section: Music and Enhanced Memory Recallmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Pa¹,

Bartlett²,

Kathios³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…For example, compared to silence, attaching text to melody during encoding (Ratovohery et al, 2018(Ratovohery et al, , 2019Samson & Zatorre, 1991;Serafine et al, 1986;Wallace, 1994) or playing background music (Ferreri et al, 2014) enhances word recall. Binding of musical tones to words through singing can also help aphasic patients retrieve and enunciate words and phrases (Kasdan & Kiran, 2018;Merrett et al, 2019;Schlaug et al, 2008Schlaug et al, , 2010. Further, music heard during certain 'sensitive periods'-youth and early adulthood in particular-may cue associations to non-musical stimuli experienced around the same time (Krumhansl & Zupnick, 2013;Schubert, 2016).…”

Section: Music and Enhanced Memory Recallmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

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Bartlett

Kathios

et al. 2023

Memory

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Familiar music facilitates memory retrieval in adults with dementia. However, mechanisms behind this effect, and its generality, are unclear because of a lack of parallel work in healthy aging. Exposure to familiar music enhances spontaneous recall of memories directly cued by the music, but it is unknown whether such effects extend to deliberate recall more generally-e.g., to memories not directly linked to the music being played. It is also unclear whether familiar music boosts recall of specific episodes versus more generalized semantic memories, or whether effects are driven by domain-general mechanisms (e.g., improved mood). In a registered report study, we examined effects of familiar music on deliberate recall in healthy adults ages 65-80 years (N=75) by presenting familiar music from earlier in life, unfamiliar music, and non-musical audio clips across three sessions. After each clip, we assessed free recall of remote memories for pre-selected events. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found no effects of music exposure on recall of prompted events, though familiar music evoked spontaneous memories most often. These results suggest that effects of familiar music on recall may be limited to memories specifically evoked in response to the music (Preprint and registered report protocol at https://osf.io/kjnwd/).'which school did you attend') developed based on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE; Folstein et al., 1975), and caregivers verified correct answers. In a different experiment, 10 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease scored higher on average on the Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI; Kopelman et al., 1989) following listening to Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' than following silence (Irish et al., 2006). In addition, effects of music on autobiographical recall were stronger for remote memories (events occurring from 0-20 years of age) than mid-remote (20-50 years) or recent memories ('the recent past or present') across several studies using MMSE-based questions to evaluate retrieval (Foster & Valentine, 2001;García et al., 2012).The studies mentioned above played all participants the same pieces of music. This leaves open the possibility that the music may have been familiar to some individuals and not others. However, clinical work has emphasized the benefits of individualized music, or music particularly familiar to a given patient (Gerdner, 2000(Gerdner, , 2012Gerdner et al., 2000;Thomas et al., 2017). In two studies, Alzheimer's patients showed better autobiographical memory recall with exposure to self-chosen music relative to experimenter-chosen music (El Haj et al., 2015;. Those studies used the TEMPau scale to score the specificity of freely recalled autobiographical narratives on a scale from 0-4 (Piolino et al., 2009). Self-chosen music, relative

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“…According to the protolinguistic theory of Steven Mithen ( 2005), hominids communicated holistically, modulating tone, duration and prosody of certain sounds, and musical phrases differed in height and rhythm. From an evolutionary point of view, therefore, the ability to sing precedes the ability to speak, so our brain is shaped on this expressive ability; in fact, in patients with Broca's aphasia (they cannot articulate a period fluently), as well as people with stuttering or other disorders in the articulation of language, they are still able to sing or show less difficulty in this activity (Merrett et al, 2019). This is due to precise reasons related to the neural circuit underlying the language, which differs in part from the one dedicated to the control of singing, set in a very complex way.…”

Section: A Question Of Rhythmmentioning

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Music: For a Sustainable Community and the Promotion of Well-being

Finestrone

2022

Elementa. Intersections Between Philosophy, Epistemology and Empirical Perspectives

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This contribution aims to offer food for thought on the ancestral role of music for mankind, considering its potential, transversal to different areas of interest, including psycho-pedagogical, clinical and didactic, as a heterogeneous expression of cultures, communities and characters. In spite of the fact that music education is compulsory in secondary schools, not in all contexts the activities are structured and carried out taking into account the positive implications on pupils’ psycho-physical well-being, rehabilitative potential and increased motivation to learn. Just as the possibilities for dynamics and time in music are manifold, so too is the horizon of options that looms over the sky of educational action, intersecting also with the world of technology, which puts innovative tools such as serious games at the service of education.

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A theoretical and clinical account of music and aphasia

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Music: For a Sustainable Community and the Promotion of Well-being

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