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| Age-specific problems in rhythmic timing | | Author(s) | Ralf Th Krampe, Ralf Engbert, Reinhold Kliegl |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 12-30 |
| Keywords | Music ; Cognitive processes ; Time conditions ; Over 70s ; Young adults [20-25] ; Germany. |
| Annotation | Performance in two rhythm tasks by young (mean age 23.8) and older (mean age 71.4) amateur pianists tested whether slowing of a central clock can explain age-related changes in timing variability. Successive keystrokes in the rhythm tasks were separated by either identical (isochronous) time intervals or varying (anisochronous) intervals. Variability was comparable for both aged groups in the isochronous task; pronounced age effects were found for the anisochronous rhythm. Analysis of covariance between intervals rule out slowing of a central clock as an explanation of the findings, which instead support the distinction between target specification, timekeeper execution, and motor implementation proposed by Vorberg and Wing's 1996 rhythm program hypothesis. Age stability was found at the level of motor implementation, but there were age-related deficits for processes related to target-duration specification. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111202 A |
| Classmark | HH: DA: 4E: BBK: SD6: 767 |
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