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IMAGE: During the 180th ASA Meeting, Arezoo Talebzadeh from Ghent University will show how a personalized soundscape can help those with dementia by providing clues regarding time of day and place. view more
Credit: Arezoo Talebzadeh, Ghent University
MELVILLE, N.Y., June 9, 2021 Designing a soundscape to improve the quality of life for an individual is centered on putting their perception at the heart of the process. It becomes trickier for people who have diminished cognitive capacities.
During the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, which will be held virtually June 8-10, Arezoo Talebzadeh, from Ghent University, will show how a personalized soundscape can help those with dementia by providing clues regarding time of day and place. The session, Soundscape design for people with dementia; the correlation between psychoacoustic parameter and human perception, will take place Wednesday, June 9, at 9:35 a.m. Eastern U.S.