Word: rabbitt
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...researcher, Patrick Rabbitt, 46, is an Oxford University psychologist who specializes in the problems of aging, including memory loss. Over the years, Rabbitt has found that people 70 and older prefer talking to one person at a time: the one-on-one situation focuses attention and shores up poor memory. In a group conversation, the elderly are likely to be tense and more easily confused. While they seem able to remember what was said, they forget who said it, or to whom it was said. In a series of tests with men and women 70 and over, Rabbitt...
Another problem, the researchers found, is that the elderly cannot easily switch from one voice to another. Given sequences of sentences recorded by different people and played back on stereo tapes as if the voices were coming from different locations, the old people were usually confused. Rabbitt asked them to repeat aloud everything said on the tapes, and though the subjects did well as long as they could home in on a single voice, whenever there was a change in voice or location, they had trouble...
...kind of country sound Joe Ely has set down on five fine albums -the newest, Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, was released in February-bears little resemblance to the chart-topping fodder of Kenny Rogers or the cuddlesome crooning of Eddie Rabbitt. Anyone who considers that those old boys sing country music is guaranteed to be mixed up and maybe a little unsettled by Joe Ely. Country slickers like Eddie and Kenny have helped divert the mainstream of Nashville about 1,600 miles west, right into the middle of Las Vegas, where a soft pedal steel guitar...