...Sylvain Clément; Audrey Tonini; Fatiha Khatir; Loris Schiaratura; Séverine Samson in this study, we examined short and longer term effects of musical and cooking interventions on emotional well-being of severe Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. These two pleasurable activities (i.e., listening...

... task involving immediate and delayed recognition of 16 target melodies (8 familiar and 8 unfamiliar). Seventeen patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 17 age-matched controls were tested. During the initial presentation of the targets, the participant had to decide whether...

... melody lyrics memory Alzheimer's disease Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Lola L. Cuddy, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6. e-mail: Lola.Cuddy@queensu.ca Musical Memory 479 and for implementing music therapy interventions. Yet...

...Ashley D. Vanstone; Ritu Sikka; Leila Tangness; Rosalind Sham; Angeles Garcia; Lola L. Cuddy the present study addressed episodic and semantic memory for melodies in three groups of participants: 35 younger adults, 40 older adults, and 10 individuals with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD...

... of a participant who suffers from mild Alzheimer's disease. As expected, initial learning of new lyrics showed better performance for the spoken condition over the sung version unless the lyrics are learned on a familiar melody. After repeated learning episodes, learning sung lyrics – even on an unfamiliar melody...