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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Erika Beras. Got a minute?

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If you're a senior citizen, music in the background may be distracting.

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But for younger people, experts at multitasking, it's apparently no big deal.

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That's according to a study in the journal Gerontologist.

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Researchers recruited 103 people, half between the ages of 18 and 30, the others between 60 and 75.

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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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Some participants did the exercises in silence.

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Others performed the tasks while listening to white noise or instrumental jazz, blues, classical and electronic music.

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Across age groups, the consensus was that the background sound was distracting,

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but only older people's performance suffered when the noise was present.

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For example, older folks who did the face-matching with music playing remembered 10 percent fewer faces.

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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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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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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Erika Beras.

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