ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2017
Music Perception in Dementia.
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- Functional neuroanatomy of musical object processing in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Individual differences in auditory scene analysis abilities in music and speech.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Proposed Mechanism of Action for Three Music-Based Interventions for Behavioral and Psychologic Symptoms of Dementia.Music therapy perspectives · 2025Article
- Primary progressive aphasia: six questions in search of an answer.Journal of neurology · 2024Review
- The effects of musicality on brain network topology in the context of Alzheimer's disease and memory decline.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Understanding the multidimensional cognitive deficits of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Review
- Alzheimer's Disease, Hearing Loss, and Deviance Detection.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Evidence and implications of abnormal predictive coding in dementia.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2021Review
- Hearing and dementia: from ears to brain.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2021Review
- Primary Progressive Aphasia: Toward a Pathophysiological Synthesis.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2021Review
- Simultaneous auditory agnosia: Systematic description of a new type of auditory segregation deficit following a right hemisphere lesion.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021Article
- Hearing Screening for Residents in Long-Term Care Homes Who Live with Dementia: A Scoping Review.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2021Article
- Decoding expectation and surprise in dementia: the paradigm of music.Brain communications · 2021Article
- Is working memory training in older adults sensitive to music?Psychological research · 2019Article
- Music and emotion in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2019Article
- The functional neuroanatomy of musical memory in Alzheimer's disease.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
- Findings of Impaired Hearing in Patients With Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia.JAMA neurology · 2019Article
- Music models aberrant rule decoding and reward valuation in dementia.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- Functional neuroanatomy of speech signal decoding in primary progressive aphasias.Neurobiology of aging · 2017Article
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Abstract
Despite much recent interest in music and dementia, music perception has not been widely studied across dementia syndromes using an information processing approach. Here we addressed this issue in a cohort of 30 patients representing major dementia syndromes of typical Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 16), logopenic aphasia (LPA, an Alzheimer variant syndrome; n = 5), and progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n = 9) in relation to 19 healthy age-matched individuals. We designed a novel neuropsychological battery to assess perception of musical patterns in the dimensions of pitch and temporal information (requiring detection of notes that deviated from the established pattern based on local or global sequence features) and musical scene analysis (requiring detection of a familiar tune within polyphonic harmony). Performance on these tests was referenced to generic auditory (timbral) deviance detection and recognition of familiar tunes and adjusted for general auditory working memory performance. Relative to healthy controls, patients with AD and LPA had group-level deficits of global pitch (melody contour) processing while patients with PNFA as a group had deficits of local (interval) as well as global pitch processing. There was substantial individual variation within syndromic groups. Taking working memory performance into account, no specific deficits of musical temporal processing, timbre processing, musical scene analysis, or tune recognition were identified. The findings suggest that particular aspects of music perception such as pitch pattern analysis may open a window on the processing of information streams in major dementia syndromes. The potential selectivity of musical deficits for particular dementia syndromes and particular dimensions of processing warrants further systematic investigation.
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