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EXPERIMENTAL AGING RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 215-228Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/036107301300208664
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Elderly individuals with mild-moderate (igh ability'') or moderate (ow ability'') dementia, answered autobiographical memory questions drawn from three life eras (remote, medium-remote, and recent), in familiar music, novel music, cafeteria noise or quiet. Recall was significantly better in the high-ability than the low-ability group, in sound than in quiet, and in music than in noise. Recall was significantly related to life era, declining from remote to recent memory. The superiority of recall in music compared with noise was apparent for recall from remote and medium-emote but not recent eras. The results are interpreted as favoring an explanation of the beneficial effect of auditory stimulation, predominantly in terms of enhanced arousal or attention deployment, with a possible subsidiary role for associative facilitation.
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