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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: BACKGROUND AND AIMS, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cognition, Humans, Memory, Music.
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Does music enhance cognitive performance in healthy older adults? Context: Controversial evidence suggests that music can enhance cognitive performance. In the present study, we examined whether listening to an excerpt of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" had a positive effect on older adults' cognitive performance in two working memory tasks. With a repeated-measures design, older adults were presented with the forward version of the digit span and phonemic fluency in classical music, white-noise and no-music conditions. Classical music significantly increased working memory performance compared with the no-music condition. In addition, this effect did not occur with white noise.
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The authors discuss this finding in terms of the arousal-and-mood hypothesis and the role of working memory resources in aging.