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Middle-aged people who struggle to remember faces might want to take up drumming lessons.
A study looked at musical abilities as a potential solution to those awkward moments of forgetting which waiter was at your table, or which person behind the bar was supposed to be bringing your drink.
Researchers discovered people who did two months of 'drumming lessons' — tapping a screen in time with a beat for almost two hours a week — could recognise faces better.
This was found by asking them to identify a face which flashed up on a screen as being the same or different to one they had seen three seconds earlier.
Brain scans showed learning to keep a beat appeared to boost a brain region linked to short-term memory.
The small study found only a four per cent improvement in remembering faces, but researchers believe people could do better after longer musical training.
Researchers discovered people who did two months of 'drumming lessons' — tapping a screen in time with a beat for almost two hours a week — could recognise faces better
