RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Dohnalová, Lenka
A1 Fürst, Tomáš
T1 Experimental Design and Technical Tools for the Research of Musical Stimuli with Artificially Implemented Complexity Used in the Rehabilitation of Alzheimer's Disease Patients
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2017
VO 25
IS 1
SP 22
OP 33
DO 10.5507/mo.2017.002
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-201701-0002.php
AB This study focuses on identifying new and effective rehabilitation strategies for patients with Alzheimer's disease, which relies on the empirically confirmed effect of musical stimuli. The strategies were inspired by studies of new rehabilitation methods designed by Nicholas Stergiou (Biomechanics Lab, University of Nebraska in Omaha), based on signals that contain artificially incorporated physiological complexity (e.g. pink noise). The physiological signals of a healthy organism contain a certain degree of such complexity. The first phase of the research includes the creation of software in a MIDI format, which enabled the implementation of this complexity into recordings of classical music, and its piloting on a "healthy" population. The following phase will examine the effects of these recordings on patients with AD (in collaboration with neurologists in diagnostics).