Following the Sound of Music

Inclusion Criteria

• Age: 60+
• No self-reported auditory difficulties and normal or near-normal hearing sensitivity as measured by SRTs.
• Should have no more than typical hearing loss for their age and no evidence of dementia.
• Fluent in English and/or Spanish
• No more than two years of formal music training in childhood OR in the past 20 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Abnormal vision or hearing prohibitive of training
• History of seizures, focal brain lesion, or head injury with loss of consciousness
• Physical handicap (motor or perceptual) that would impede training procedures
• Social, educational or economic hardship prohibitive to training schedule Concurrent enrollment in other cognitive training studies
• History of major psychiatric illness, including psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, alcohol or substance abuse, recent bereavement
• Geriatric Depression Scale-15 (GDS-15) score of 6 or higher, indicating clinically significant depressive symptoms
• Not being proficient enough in English or Spanish that would prevent following and understanding all instructions and completing all testing sessions
• Diagnosis of dementia or other neurological disease, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
• Telephone-Montreal Cognitive Assessment (t-MoCA) score of 16 or less