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Age-Related Patterns In Emotions Evoked By Music, Marcus T. Pearce, Andrea R. Halpern
Age-Related Patterns In Emotions Evoked By Music, Marcus T. Pearce, Andrea R. Halpern
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We presented older and younger nonmusician adult listeners with (mostly) unfamiliar excerpts of film music. All listeners rated their emotional reaction using the Geneva Emotional Music Scale 9 (GEMS-9; Zentner, Grandjean, & Scherer, 2008), and also rated familiarity and liking. The GEMS-9 was factor-analyzed into 3 factors of Animacy, Valence, and Arousal. Although the 2 age groups liked the music equally well, and showed roughly the same pattern of responses to the different emotion categories, the younger group showed a wider range of emotional reactivity on all the factors. We found support for a type of positivity effect, in that …
Musical Tasks Targeting Preserved And Impaired Functions In Two Dementias, Andrea R. Halpern, Hannah L. Golden, Nadia Magdalinou, Pirada Witoonpanich, Jason D. Warren
Musical Tasks Targeting Preserved And Impaired Functions In Two Dementias, Andrea R. Halpern, Hannah L. Golden, Nadia Magdalinou, Pirada Witoonpanich, Jason D. Warren
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Studies of musical abilities in dementia have for the most part been rather general assessments of abilities, for instance, assessing retention of music learned premorbidly. Here, we studied patients with dementias with contrasting cognitive profiles to explore specific aspects of music cognition under challenge. Patients suffered from Alzheimer's disease (AD), in which a primary impairment is in forming new declarative memories, or Lewy body disease (PD/LBD), a type of parkinsonism in which executive impairments are prominent. In the AD patients, we examined musical imagery. Behavioral and neural evidence confirms involvement of perceptual networks in imagery, and these are relatively spared …