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| Experience-based attenuation of age-related differences in music cognition tasks | | Author(s) | Elizabeth J Meinz |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 297-312 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Music ; Personality ; Mental ageing. |
| Annotation | Pianists of a wide experience and age range were tested on measures of musical memory and musical perceptual speed to better understand the effects of age-cognition relations. Experience-related attenuation might be in the form of an Age x Experience interaction or in the form of a "confounding" of age and experience such that positive age-experience relations offset negative age-cognition relations. It was predicted that the former, considered evidence for disuse interpretations of ageing would be likely to emerge in tasks with strong experience effects and strong age-related declines in inexperienced individuals. However, in no case were the interactions of age and experience significant on the memory or perceptual speed variables. There was, however, evidence that high levels of experience in the older participants potentially attenuated the negative effects of age in the memory and perceptual speed tasks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024209 A |
| Classmark | DB: HH: DK: D6 |
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