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Hooked on a Feeling: Influence of Brief Exposure to Familiar Music on Feelings of Emotion in Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
- Source :
- Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 78(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background: Research has indicated that individuals with Alzheimer’s-type dementia (AD) can experience prolonged emotions, even when they cannot recall the eliciting event. Less is known about whether music can modify the emotional state of individuals with AD and whether emotions evoked by music linger in the absence of a declarative memory for the eliciting event. Objective: We examined the effects of participant-selected recorded music on self-reported feelings of emotion in individuals with AD, and whether these feelings persisted irrespective of declarative memory for the emotion-inducing stimuli. Methods: Twenty participants with AD and 19 healthy comparisons (HCs) listened to two 4.5-minute blocks of self-selected music that aimed to induce either sadness or happiness. Participants reported their feelings at baseline and three times post-induction and completed recall and recognition tests for the music selections after each induction. Results: Participants with AD had impaired memory for music selections compared to HCs. Both groups reported elevated sadness and negative affect after listening to sad music and increased happiness and positive affect after listening to happy music, relative to baseline. Sad/negative and happy/positive emotions endured up to 20 minutes post-induction. Conclusion: Brief exposure to music can induce strong and lingering emotions in individuals with AD. These findings extend the intriguing phenomenon whereby lasting emotions can be prompted by stimuli that are not remembered declaratively. Our results underscore the utility of familiar music for inducing emotions in individuals with AD and may ultimately inform strategies for using music listening as a therapeutic tool with this population.
- Subjects :
- Male
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
Emotions
Happiness
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Alzheimer Disease
Sadness
medicine
Dementia
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Active listening
education
media_common
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
education.field_of_study
Recall
General Neuroscience
05 social sciences
Recognition, Psychology
General Medicine
Impaired memory
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
humanities
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Feeling
Case-Control Studies
Mental Recall
Female
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Music
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18758908
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0c167fb07f2c383aa0dfc5db451aa512