Memoria emocional y efecto de la música en el recuerdo de adultos mayores

Julieta Moltrasio; Verónica Detlefsen; Florencia Dominguez; Wanda Rubinstein

doi:10.22235/cp.v16i1.2647

Authors

Julieta Moltrasio Universidad de Buenos Aires https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0759-0563
Verónica Detlefsen acultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3799-5366
Florencia Dominguez Departamento de Neurociencias, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7510-597X
Wanda Rubinstein Laboratorio de Deterioro Cognitivo, Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos Eva Perón; CONICET, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Departamento de Neurociencias, Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Facultad de Psicología, Instituto de Investigaciones, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2673-6353

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v16i1.2647

Keywords:

Older adults, Music, Emotion, Positive stimuli

Abstract

Older adults remember emotional stimuli to a greater extent than neutral ones. This would be higher for positive stimuli. Several studies used music to modulate emotional memories in young adults, in the consolidation stage. This was scarcely studied in older adults using negative, positive and neutral stimuli. The aim of this work is to study emotional memory in older adults and the effect of activating and relaxing music on emotional and neutral visual memory. Forty-four older adults were evaluated. They observed negative, positive, and neutral pictures. Then, a relaxing, activating or white noise musical treatment was applied to them, followed by a free recall and recognition task. A week later, the free recall and recognition tasks were repeated. The results indicated better memory free of emotional stimuli, and a greater number of emotional false positives. Relaxing music worsened delayed recognition, and white noise produced better immediate recall of positive pictures. The results indicate that emotional memory is preserved in older adults. Music modulates memories differently in older adults compared to younger adults, as only relaxing music produced the expected effect.

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