Towards A Sound-Based Diagnosis and Therapy for Dementia

Dementia
Cognitive Decline
MCI
Diagnosis
Emotion
SAM Scale

Music and Health

Published

January 1, 2011

Abstract

Although music is widely used in therapeutic settings, the precise relationship between musical parameters and affective states is not clear. To address this issue in the context of Alzheimer Disease, we developed an automated test procedure that assesses the correlation between the timbre, spectral content, intensity, tempo and consonance of a set of parametric sound samples with the self-reported emotional state of AD patients. The significant differences between control and patients for specific features suggest an automated sound-based diagnosis of dementia is possible.

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References

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Le Groux, Sylvain, Zenon Matthews, Melissa Brotons, Jonatas Manzolli, and Paul F. M. J. Verschure. 2008. “Effects of Sound Features on the Affective State of Dementia Patients.” Barcelona, Spain: Poster. http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~slegroux/pubs/2008/RAVE08.pdf.