The sonorous spaceas a recalling place of memory in elderly people

Abstract

The link between music and education has always inspired many different thoughts and pedagogical practices. In this paper this link is analyzed on two different levels. The first is strictly theoretical and relates to the interdisciplinary fields of pedagogy, focusing particularly on the approach of biopedagogy, psychology of music and neuroscience. The second one concerns empirical research carried out in the field of Medical Pedagogy in the Epistemology and Educational Practices Laboratory at the University of Naples Federico II. These practices are designed to recall implicit memory in pathological and non-pathological elderly people.
In the end, the focus will be on the strategy of Musical Autobiography which is the object of current international research, coordinated by the author, in the context of intervention for the pedagogical rehabilitation of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.