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The Effect of Emotional Speech Prosody on Memory Recovery of Patients with Dementia of Alzheimer Type

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    1 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

    2 Professor of Neurology, Department of Psychology, Tehran University of Medical Science(TUMS) (The First Author).

    3 Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences.

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Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article

Abstract

Learning is the process of acquiring the new information, and the outcome of learning is memory. Memory is the ability to store, retain, and retrieve information that activates past experiences to influence today's behavior. Researchers have studied the important role of two basic dimensions of emotion, namely arousal and capacity, in the memory of emotional events. The aim of this study was to answer the questions of whether the emotional lexical content of sentences or the tone of emotional speech prosody is effective in evoking the memory of patients with Alzheimer disease. Does the interaction of the two play a greater role in better recovering the memory of these patients? For this purpose, from 40 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease, a test was performed using the Persian ESD emotional language database to assess the degree of memory arousal. The results showed that emotional lexical content along with emotional speech prosody is effective in retrieving, recalling and sustaining emotional sentences. The effect of emotional speech prosody on words primarily causes emotional arousal to increase clarity and clearly of memory, and secondly causes emotional words to form a conceptual group or conceptual cohesion. Therefore, they should be retrieve better.

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Language Studies
Volume 13, Issue 2 - Serial Number 26
autumn & winter
February 2022
Pages 285-306
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