The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music

Background music refers to any music played while the listener is performing another activity. Most studies on this effect have been conducted on young adults, while little attention has been paid to the presence of this effect in older adults. Hence, this study aimed to address this imbalance by as...

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Autores principales: Bottiroli, Sara, Rosi, Alessia, Russo, Riccardo, Vecchi, Tomaso, Cavallini, Elena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360112
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00284
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author Bottiroli, Sara
Rosi, Alessia
Russo, Riccardo
Vecchi, Tomaso
Cavallini, Elena
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description Background music refers to any music played while the listener is performing another activity. Most studies on this effect have been conducted on young adults, while little attention has been paid to the presence of this effect in older adults. Hence, this study aimed to address this imbalance by assessing the impact of different types of background music on cognitive tasks tapping declarative memory and processing speed in older adults. Overall, background music tended to improve performance over no music and white noise, but not always in the same manner. The theoretical and practical implications of the empirical findings are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-41977922014-10-30 The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music Bottiroli, Sara Rosi, Alessia Russo, Riccardo Vecchi, Tomaso Cavallini, Elena Front Aging Neurosci Neuroscience Background music refers to any music played while the listener is performing another activity. Most studies on this effect have been conducted on young adults, while little attention has been paid to the presence of this effect in older adults. Hence, this study aimed to address this imbalance by assessing the impact of different types of background music on cognitive tasks tapping declarative memory and processing speed in older adults. Overall, background music tended to improve performance over no music and white noise, but not always in the same manner. The theoretical and practical implications of the empirical findings are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4197792/ /pubmed/25360112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00284 Text en Copyright © 2014 Bottiroli, Rosi, Russo, Vecchi and Cavallini. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Bottiroli, Sara
Rosi, Alessia
Russo, Riccardo
Vecchi, Tomaso
Cavallini, Elena
The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
title The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
title_full The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
title_fullStr The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
title_full_unstemmed The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
title_short The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
title_sort cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360112
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00284
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