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| Title: | Towards a System that Relieves Psychological Symptoms of Dementia by Music |
| Authors: | Oshima, Chika
Nakayama, Koichi
Itou, Naoki
Nishimoto, Kazushi
Yasuda, Kiyoshi
Hosoi, Naohito
Okumura, Hiroshi
Horikawa, Etsuo |
| Keywords: | MusiCuddle
vocoder
FTD
Harmony in a major and minor key
Dementia |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | International Academy, Research, and Industry Association |
| Magazine name: | International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Number: | 3&4 |
| Start page: | 126 |
| End page: | 136 |
| Abstract: | MusiCuddle is a system to calm the symptoms of patients with mental instability who repeat stereotypical utterances. The system presents a short musical phrase whose first note is the same as the fundamental pitch (F0) of a patient’s utterances. We performed a case study to investigate how a patient’s behaviors changed with MusiCuddle. The results suggested that the phrases presented by MusiCuddle may provide patients with an opportunity to stop repeating stereotypical utterances. Then, we added a vocoder function to MusiCuddle so that patients would be able to attend to the music more. We examined whether the mood of university students changed or not according to music presented with the vocoder function. We found significant differences between major harmonies and minor harmonies for the “cheerful” and “negative” moods. Namely, when a person’s voice is combined with cheerful sounds, he/she can become cheerful. However, when we conducted a case study to expect a patient’s repetitive utterances changed or stoped by the sound from the MusiCuddle with the vocoder, the participant’s utterances did not change. We discussed reasons of the result from an aspect of characteristic of a patient according to a cause disease of dementia. |
| Rights: | © Copyright by authors, Published under agreement with IARIA. Chika Oshima, Koichi Nakayama, Naoki Itou, Kazushi Nishimoto, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Naohito Hosoi, Hiroshi Okumura, and Etsuo Horikawa, “Towards a System that Relieves Psychological Symptoms of Dementia by Music”, International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, issn 1942-2660 vol. 5, no. 3 & 4, year 2013, pp.126-136 , http://www.iariajournals.org/life_sciences/ |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10119/14735 |
| Material Type: | publisher |
| Appears in Collections: | z7-10-1. 雑誌掲載論文 (Journal Articles)
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