Turn Off the Music! Music Impairs Visual Associative Memory Performance in Older Adults | Zendy

Sarah Reaves | Zendy; Brittany Shauna Graham | Zendy; Jessica A. Grahn | Zendy; Parissa Rabannifard | Zendy; Audrey Duarte | Zendy

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Turn Off the Music! Music Impairs Visual Associative Memory Performance in Older Adults

Author(s) -

Sarah Reaves,

Brittany Shauna Graham,

Jessica A. Grahn,

Parissa Rabannifard,

Audrey Duarte

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnu113

Subject(s) - psychology , active listening , cognitive psychology , silence , task (project management) , cognition , associative property , developmental psychology , communication , neuroscience , philosophy , mathematics , management , pure mathematics , economics , aesthetics

Whether we are explicitly listening to it or not, music is prevalent in our environment. Surprisingly, little is known about the effect of environmental music on concurrent cognitive functioning and whether young and older adults are differentially affected by music. Here, we investigated the impact of background music on a concurrent paired associate learning task in healthy young and older adults.

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