Auditory Scene Analysis Deficits Across Dementia Subtypes: A Framework for Environmental Design

This work establishes a novel framework linking dementia-specific ASA deficits to environmental design principles. Results indicate that soundscape interventions must be tailored to the particular pattern of auditory processing impairment in different dementia subtypes. These findings have significant implications for designing acoustic environments in dementia care settings and suggest that environmental modifications should consider both bottom-up (primitive) and top-down (schema-based) auditory processing deficits specific to each form of dementia.