Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol 53, Issue 1 P60-P69, Copyright © 1998 by The Gerontological Society of America

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The effects of age and experience on memory for visually presented music

EJ Meinz and TA Salthouse
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. gt4956b@acme.gatech.edu

Increased age is often associated with lower levels of performance in tests of memory for spatial information. The primary question in the current study was whether this relationship could be moderated as a function of one's relevant experience and/or knowledge. Stimulus materials consisted of short (7-11 note), visually presented musical melodies and structurally equivalent nonmusical stimuli. Participants (N = 128) were recruited from a wide range of age and experience levels. Although there were strong main effects of age and experience on memory for music, there was no evidence that the age-related differences in memory for these stimuli were smaller for individuals with moderate to large amounts of experience with music.

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