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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Erika Beras. Got a minute?
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2 .If you're a senior citizen, music in the background may be distracting.
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3 .But for younger people, experts at multitasking, it's apparently no big deal.
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4 .That's according to a study in the journal Gerontologist.
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5 .Researchers recruited 103 people, half between the ages of 18 and 30, the others between 60 and 75.
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6 .The volunteers then took part in memorization exercises and a drill where they had to quickly match a photo of a face with the same face in an array of unfamiliar faces.
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7 .Some participants did the exercises in silence.
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8 .Others performed the tasks while listening to white noise or instrumental jazz, blues, classical and electronic music.
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9 .Across age groups, the consensus was that the background sound was distracting,
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10 .but only older people's performance suffered when the noise was present.
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11 .For example, older folks who did the face-matching with music playing remembered 10 percent fewer faces.
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12 .The result matches up with the theory that the elderly are less able to filter out what's called "distracting task-irrelevant information."
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13 .In this case the distracting info might have interfered with them storing the facial image in the first place, much less impeding their ability to remember it a short while later.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Erika Beras.
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