ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2021
Sensory Cueing of Autobiographical Memories in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: A Comparison Between Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Information.
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- Autobiographical memory in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Embodied Approach to Autobiographical Recall Disorders in Alzheimer's Disease.Neuropsychology review · 2026Review
- Unfolding Nostalgia: Spatial Visualization, Nostalgia, and Well-Being.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Using acousmatic storytelling to facilitate communication and social interactions in people living with dementia: An iterative exploratory 12-week study.Australasian journal on ageing · 2025Article
- Enabling Personalization for Digital Cognitive Stimulation to Support Communication With People With Dementia: Pilot Intervention Study as a Prelude to AI Development.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Olfactory stimulation for people with dementia: A rapid review.Dementia (London, England) · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative disease resulting in a progressive decline of autobiographical memories (AMs) which favors the development of psycho-behavioral disorders. One of the most popular psychosocial interventions in dementia care, Reminiscence Therapy, commonly uses sensory cueing to stimulate AMs retrieval. However, few empirical studies have investigated the impact of sensory stimulation on AMs retrieval in AD.
objectiveOur goal was to determine the most relevant cue for AMs retrieval in patients with early to mild AD when comparing odors, sounds and pictures.
methodsSixty AD patients, 60 healthy older adults (OA), and 60 healthy young adults (YA) participated in our study. Participants were presented with either 4 odors, 4 sounds, or 4 pictures. For each stimulus, they were asked to retrieve a personal memory, to rate it across 3 dimensions (emotionality, vividness, rarity) and then to date it.
resultsOverall, results showed no clear dominance of one sensory modality over the others in evoking higher-quality AMs. However, they show that using pictures is the better way to stimulate AD patients' AM, as it helps to retrieve a higher number of memories that are also less frequently retrieved, followed by odors. By contrast, auditory cueing with environmental sounds presented no true advantage.
conclusionOur data should help dementia care professionals to increase the efficiency of Reminiscence Therapy using sensory elicitors. Other clinical implications and future directions are also discussed.
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