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The Effect Of Background Music On The Visual Categorization Of Printed Words In Normal Younger And Older Adults, Sukhada Vaidya Mairal
The Effect Of Background Music On The Visual Categorization Of Printed Words In Normal Younger And Older Adults, Sukhada Vaidya Mairal
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Aim: Research has shown that background music, with and without vocal content, has a detrimental effect on cognitive task performance. Research has also shown a decline in processing speed as age increases. The present study seeks to answer the following questions: 1. Will background vocal music have any detrimental effects on performance of a visual semantic word categorization task? 2. Does age have any effect on performance of visual semantic word categorization in the presence of background music?
Participants: Participants consisted of 36 adult native speakers of English with normal speech and language divided in to two groups based on …