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Happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults

Of the three subtypes of attention outlined by the attentional subsystems model, alerting (vigilance or arousal needed for task completion) and executive control (the ability to inhibit distracting information while completing a goal) are susceptible to age-related decline, while orienting remains r...

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Autores principales: Dovorany, Nicholas, Brannick, Schea, Johnson, Nathan, Ratiu, Ileana, LaCroix, Arianna N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36777231
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1029773
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author Dovorany, Nicholas
Brannick, Schea
Johnson, Nathan
Ratiu, Ileana
LaCroix, Arianna N.
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Brannick, Schea
Johnson, Nathan
Ratiu, Ileana
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description Of the three subtypes of attention outlined by the attentional subsystems model, alerting (vigilance or arousal needed for task completion) and executive control (the ability to inhibit distracting information while completing a goal) are susceptible to age-related decline, while orienting remains relatively stable. Yet, few studies have investigated strategies that may acutely maintain or promote attention in typically aging older adults. Music listening may be one potential strategy for attentional maintenance as past research shows that listening to happy music characterized by a fast tempo and major mode increases cognitive task performance, likely by increasing cognitive arousal. The present study sought to investigate whether listening to happy music (fast tempo, major mode) impacts alerting, orienting, and executive control attention in 57 middle and older-aged adults (M = 61.09 years, SD = 7.16). Participants completed the Attention Network Test (ANT) before and after listening to music rated as happy or sad (slow tempo, minor mode), or no music (i.e., silence) for 10 min. Our results demonstrate that happy music increased alerting attention, particularly when relevant and irrelevant information conflicted within a trial. Contrary to what was predicted, sad music modulated executive control performance. Overall, our findings indicate that music written in the major mode with a fast tempo (happy) and minor mode with a slow tempo (sad) modulate different aspects of attention in the short-term.
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spelling pubmed-99095552023-02-10 Happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults Dovorany, Nicholas Brannick, Schea Johnson, Nathan Ratiu, Ileana LaCroix, Arianna N. Front Psychol Psychology Of the three subtypes of attention outlined by the attentional subsystems model, alerting (vigilance or arousal needed for task completion) and executive control (the ability to inhibit distracting information while completing a goal) are susceptible to age-related decline, while orienting remains relatively stable. Yet, few studies have investigated strategies that may acutely maintain or promote attention in typically aging older adults. Music listening may be one potential strategy for attentional maintenance as past research shows that listening to happy music characterized by a fast tempo and major mode increases cognitive task performance, likely by increasing cognitive arousal. The present study sought to investigate whether listening to happy music (fast tempo, major mode) impacts alerting, orienting, and executive control attention in 57 middle and older-aged adults (M = 61.09 years, SD = 7.16). Participants completed the Attention Network Test (ANT) before and after listening to music rated as happy or sad (slow tempo, minor mode), or no music (i.e., silence) for 10 min. Our results demonstrate that happy music increased alerting attention, particularly when relevant and irrelevant information conflicted within a trial. Contrary to what was predicted, sad music modulated executive control performance. Overall, our findings indicate that music written in the major mode with a fast tempo (happy) and minor mode with a slow tempo (sad) modulate different aspects of attention in the short-term. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9909555/ /pubmed/36777231 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1029773 Text en Copyright © 2023 Dovorany, Brannick, Johnson, Ratiu and LaCroix. https://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 or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) 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.
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Dovorany, Nicholas
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Johnson, Nathan
Ratiu, Ileana
LaCroix, Arianna N.
Happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults
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title_short Happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults
title_sort happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36777231
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1029773
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