After only two exposures to previously unfamiliar melodies, adults remember the tunes for over a week and the key for over a day. Here, we examined the development of long-term memory for melody and key. Listeners in three age groups (7- to 8-year-olds, 9- to 11-year-olds, and adults) heard two presentations of each of 12 unfamiliar melodies. After a 10-min delay, they heard the same 12 old melodies intermixed with 12 new melodies. Half of the old melodies were transposed up or down by six semitones from initial exposure. Listeners rated how well they recognized the melodies from the exposure phase. Recognition was better for old than for new melodies, for adults compared to children, and for older compared to younger children. Recognition ...
Previous research has shown that music exposure can impair a wide variety of cognitive and behaviour...
Increased age is often associated with lower levels of performance in tests of memory for spatial in...
In many memory domains, a decrease in recognition performance between the first and second presentat...
Even adults with no formal music lessons have implicit musical knowledge acquired through exposure t...
The authors examined the effects of age, musical experience, and characteristics of musical stimuli ...
Current evidence on ageing and states of awareness in memory tasks is mixed. In all cases, there is ...
Older and younger adults differ in the ways that they encode information as the brain becomes genera...
The ability to recall the absolute pitch level of familiar music (latent absolute pitch memory) is w...
A number of recent recognition and production studies using classical music, pop songs, and folk son...
International audienceMusic is often intimately linked to identity, as evidenced by the high value m...
Very long-term memory for popular music was investigated. Older and younger adults listened to 20-se...
A number of recent recognition and production studies using classical music, pop songs, and folk son...
Subjects over the age of 50 listened to theme tunes of remote, recent, and frequent television progr...
Several studies have demonstrated that melody recognition is reduced when the timbre (instrument) ch...
Eighty-one listeners defined by three age ranges (18–30, 31–59, and over 60 years) and three levels ...
Previous research has shown that music exposure can impair a wide variety of cognitive and behaviour...
Increased age is often associated with lower levels of performance in tests of memory for spatial in...
In many memory domains, a decrease in recognition performance between the first and second presentat...
Even adults with no formal music lessons have implicit musical knowledge acquired through exposure t...
The authors examined the effects of age, musical experience, and characteristics of musical stimuli ...
Current evidence on ageing and states of awareness in memory tasks is mixed. In all cases, there is ...
Older and younger adults differ in the ways that they encode information as the brain becomes genera...
The ability to recall the absolute pitch level of familiar music (latent absolute pitch memory) is w...
A number of recent recognition and production studies using classical music, pop songs, and folk son...
International audienceMusic is often intimately linked to identity, as evidenced by the high value m...
Very long-term memory for popular music was investigated. Older and younger adults listened to 20-se...
A number of recent recognition and production studies using classical music, pop songs, and folk son...
Subjects over the age of 50 listened to theme tunes of remote, recent, and frequent television progr...
Several studies have demonstrated that melody recognition is reduced when the timbre (instrument) ch...
Eighty-one listeners defined by three age ranges (18–30, 31–59, and over 60 years) and three levels ...
Previous research has shown that music exposure can impair a wide variety of cognitive and behaviour...
Increased age is often associated with lower levels of performance in tests of memory for spatial in...
In many memory domains, a decrease in recognition performance between the first and second presentat...