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Purpose: People with aphasia (PWA) with cognitive deficits have poorer treatment outcomes than those without. However, aphasia therapy rarely focuses on cognition, which may partly explain the variability often observed in treatment outcomes. Listening to music has been shown to positively impact cognition in neurotypical adults. The purpose of this study was to extend this prior research by investigating whether listening to music induces short-term improvements in attention in PWA.
Method: Forty-three PWA were assigned to listen to music characterized as happy (major mode, fast tempo) or sad (minor mode, slow tempo) or no music for 10 min. Attention was measured before and after music listening using the Attention Network Test, which measures three types of attention: alerting, orienting, and executive control. Mixed analyses of variance were used to explore how each type of attention changed after music listening by group and aphasia severity.
Results: Our results demonstrate that listening to happy music temporarily enhanced orienting attention, regardless of aphasia severity. Happy music listening also induced short-term improvements in alerting attention for individuals with moderate-severe aphasia. Executive control attention was not modulated by music listening.
Conclusions: Our findings indicate that music listening may induce short-term improvements in attention in PWA. However, further research is needed to clarify the extent of these effects and the underlying mechanisms driving music-induced changes in attention.
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Mission: AJSLP publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on all aspects of clinical practice in speech-language pathology. The journal is an international outlet for clinical research pertaining to screening, detection, diagnosis, management, and outcomes of communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. Because of its clinical orientation, the journal disseminates research findings applicable to diverse aspects of clinical practice in speech-language pathology. AJSLP seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work.
Scope: The broad field of speech-language pathology, including aphasia; apraxia of speech and childhood apraxia of speech; aural rehabilitation; augmentative and alternative communication; cognitive impairment; craniofacial disorders; dysarthria; fluency disorders; language disorders in children; speech sound disorders; swallowing, dysphagia, and feeding disorders; and voice disorders.
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