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I Know What I Like: Stability Of Aesthetic Preference In Alzheimer's Disease, Andrea R. Halpern, Jenny Ly, Seth Elkin-Franklin, Margaret G. O'Connor
I Know What I Like: Stability Of Aesthetic Preference In Alzheimer's Disease, Andrea R. Halpern, Jenny Ly, Seth Elkin-Franklin, Margaret G. O'Connor
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Two studies explored the stability of art preference in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and age-matched control participants. Preferences for three different styles of paintings, displayed on art postcards, were examined over two sessions. Preference for specific paintings differed among individuals but AD and non-AD groups maintained about the same stability in terms of preference judgments across two weeks, even though the AD patients did not have explicit memory for the paintings. We conclude that aesthetic responses can be preserved in the face of cognitive decline. This should encourage caregivers and family to engage in arts appreciation activities with patients, and …
Effects Of Timbre And Tempo Change On Memory For Music, Andrea R. Halpern, Daniel Mullensiefen
Effects Of Timbre And Tempo Change On Memory For Music, Andrea R. Halpern, Daniel Mullensiefen
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We investigated the effects of different encoding tasks and of manipulations of two supposedly surface parameters of music on implicit and explicit memory for tunes. In two experiments, participants were first asked to either categorize instrument or judge familiarity of 40 unfamiliar short tunes. Subsequently, participants were asked to give explicit and implicit memory ratings for a list of 80 tunes, which included 40 previously heard. Half of the 40 previously heard tunes differed in timbre (Experiment 1) or tempo (Experiment 2) in comparison with the first exposure. A third experiment compared similarity ratings of the tunes that varied in …
Melody Recognition At Fast And Slow Tempos: Effects Of Age, Experience, And Familiarity, W. Jay Dowling, James C. Bartlett, Andrea R. Halpern, Melinda W. Andrews
Melody Recognition At Fast And Slow Tempos: Effects Of Age, Experience, And Familiarity, W. Jay Dowling, James C. Bartlett, Andrea R. Halpern, Melinda W. Andrews
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Eighty-one listeners defined by three age ranges (18–30, 31–59, and over 60 years) and three levels of musical experience performed an immediate recognition task requiring the detection of alterations in melodies. On each trial, a brief melody was presented, followed 5 sec later by a test stimulus that either was identical to the target or had two pitches changed, for a same–different judgment. Each melody pair was presented at 0.6 note/sec, 3.0 notes/sec, or 6.0 notes/sec. Performance was better with familiar melodies than with unfamiliar melodies. Overall performance declined slightly with age and improved substantially with increasing experience, in agreement …