Sound Science: Researcher Investigates How Music Alters the MindMelodic intonation therapy, which uses note and rhythm patterns to restore language, was developed nearly 50 years ago.
“Many people with aphasia can sing words that they otherwise cannot speak,” he said. “But the neural mechanisms behind this have been largely unexplored.”
Lee hypothesized that, counterintuitively, it may be the rhythm, not the melody, in singing that enables language recovery. He has been developing a rhythm video gaming therapy app.
Children with a good sense of rhythm also tend to have good grammar skills irrespective of their IQ or memory skills. “Language and music are tied, at least in this way,” Lee said.
Lee said that demonstrated clinical benefits are necessary to bring the potential of sound therapy into focus.
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