... intelligence assessments such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III (WAIS-III; Weschler, 1997 ) with norms provided across a broad age range (6–89 years). Advanced Measures of Music Audiation (AMMA; Gordon, 1989 ) was used to measure music aptitude with 30 paired piano melodies in which pairs...

... of the British adult population on age, gender, income, and education. Each participant reported details of a recent MEAM and a recent TEAM experience. MEAMs exhibited significantly greater episodic reliving, personal significance, and social content than TEAMs, and elicited more positive and intense emotions...

...São Luís Castro; César F. Lima We investigated how age and musical expertise influence emotion recognition in music. Musically trained and untrained participants from two age cohorts, young and middle-aged adults ( N = 80), were presented with music excerpts expressing happiness, peacefulness...

...Séverine Samson; Amee Baird; Aline Moussard; Sylvain Clément the effect of pathological aging on explicit memory is very well documented, but relatively few studies have addressed this issue in the musical domain. To examine learning and consolidation of melodies, we designed a melodic recognition...