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Table 2 Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) of both emotional capacity tests (emotional memory and emotional prosody tests) in the AD and control groups

From: Music and emotion in Alzheimer’s disease

 

MiAD group

MoAD group

Control group

 

M (SD)

M (SD)

M (SD)

p valuea

Emotional memory test

 Total learning of emotionally charged word list (list A)

26.3 (5.5)

17.7 (6.5)

47.4 (13.2)

< 0.0001*

 Total learning of emotionally neutral word list (list B)

21.1 (5.1)

14.5 (5.1)

38.4 (14.1)

< 0.0001*

 Long delay free recall of list A

2.2 (2.2)

0.8 (0.9)

10.0 (3.6)

< 0.0001*

 Long delay free recall of list B

0.8 (1.6)

0.2 (0.8)

7.3 (4.0)

< 0.0001*

 Emotional memory score

5.2 (5.7)

3.2 (4.5)

9.0 (7.9)

0.0086*

Emotional prosody test

 Spontaneously intonation expression

9.6 (2.2)

8.5 (2.2)

11.1 (1.1)

0.0005*

 Intonation repetition

29.4 (5.9)

14.5 (5.1)

33.1 (3.8)

0.0036*

 Recognition of sentence emotion

8.6 (2.4)

7.8 (2.1)

9.8 (2.6)

0.0185*

  1. ap values (Kruskal-Wallis test) referred to control and experimental groups
  2. *Significant difference (p < .05)