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Musical and verbal memory in Alzheimer’s disease: A study of long-term and short-term memory
Brain and Cognition, 06/17/09

Marie-Claude Ménarda et al. - No correlation was found between musical and verbal LTM. However, there was a significant correlation between verbal and musical STM in AD participants and healthy older adults, which suggests that the two domains may share common mechanisms.

Methods

Long-term memory (LTM) was tested with a recognition procedure using unfamiliar melodies. Short-term memory (STM) was evaluated with same/different judgment tasks on short series of notes.
Musical memory was compared to verbal memory using a task that used pseudowords (LTM) or syllables (STM).

Results

It was of the same magnitude for both musical and verbal domains whether tested with short-term or long-term memory tasks. No correlation was found between musical and verbal LT

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