Orchestra experiment shows older people can identify and remember musical themes as well as younger people

A team of psychologists at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in Canada, has found via experimentation, that older people are able to identify and remember themes in music pieces just as well as younger people. In their paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the group describes how they asked random volunteers at a classical music concert to participate in a music memory experiment, and what they learned from the behaviors of those who agreed. Prior research has shown that as people age, they tend to lose mental acuity and begin to have trouble with their memory. In this new Read More