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Our ability to recognize music might not diminish with age, with older concert attendees identifying themes in music as well as younger participants

Our ability to recognize music might not diminish with age, with older concert attendees identifying themes in music as well as younger participants
2024-07-24
(Press-News.org) Our ability to recognize music might not diminish with age, with older concert attendees identifying themes in music as well as younger participants

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0305969

Article Title: Age and familiarity effects on musical memory

Author Countries: Canada, UK

Funding: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: this work was supported by BRZ’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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[Press-News.org] Our ability to recognize music might not diminish with age, with older concert attendees identifying themes in music as well as younger participants