Music Listening, Emotion, and Cognition in Older Adults
Vincenzi M, Borella E, Sella E, Lima CF, De Beni R, Schellenberg EG
Brain sciences · 4 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- Università degli Studi di Padova
Based on 1 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2022-11-17 · Brain Sci · vol. 12 · issue 11 · p. 1567
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 13 citations · more than 72% of similar papers · 1.0× the field average
- References
- 66 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Neuroscience and Music Perception · Music Therapy and Health · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Keywords
- Psychology, Arousal, Mood, Active listening, Cognition, Cognitive psychology, Fluency, Affect (linguistics), Audiology, Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, Social psychology, Communication, Psychiatry
6 authors
From IT, PT, GB, CA
- Margherita Vincenzi · correspondingUniversity of Padua
- Erika BorellaUniversity of Padua
- Enrico SellaUniversity of Padua
- César F. LimaIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social; University College London
- Rossana De BéniUniversity of Padua
- E. Glenn SchellenbergIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; University of Toronto; Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social
Abstract
Using the arousal and mood hypothesis as a theoretical framework, we examined whether community-dwelling older adults (N = 132) exhibited cognitive benefits after listening to music. Participants listened to shorter (≈2.5 min) or longer (≈8 min) excerpts from recordings of happy- or sad-sounding music or from a spoken-word recording. Before and after listening, they completed tasks measuring visuospatial working memory (WM), cognitive flexibility and speed, verbal fluency, and mathematical ability, as well as measures of arousal and mood. In general, older adults improved from pre- to post-test on the cognitive tasks. For the test of WM, the increase was greater for participants who heard happy-sounding music compared to those in the other two groups. The happy-sounding group also exhibited larger increases in arousal and mood, although improvements in mood were evident only for the long-duration condition. At the individual level, however, improvements in WM were unrelated to changes in arousal or mood. In short, the results were partially consistent with the arousal and mood hypothesis. For older adults, listening to happy-sounding music may optimize arousal levels and mood, and improve performance on some cognitive tasks (i.e., WM), even though there is no direct link between changes in arousal/mood and changes in WM.
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