Kelly Jakubowski

Kelly Jakubowski

Kelly Jakubowski is a music psychology researcher and first author of the 2020 Music & Science study of reminiscence bumps for music-related memories in adulthood.

Who they are

Kelly Jakubowski is a music psychology researcher and first author of the 2020 Music & Science study of reminiscence bumps for music-related memories in adulthood. On this site the name is tied to Reminiscence Bump, Cascading Reminiscence Bump.

Key papers

Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Tillmann, B., Perrin, F., & Heine, L. (2020). A cross-sectional study of reminiscence bumps for music-related memories in adulthood. Music & Science, 3.

Key ideas

Reminiscence Bump: The tendency to recall more from roughly ages ten to thirty than from other periods.

Cascading Reminiscence Bump: The pattern in which young adults rate music from their parents' generation highly as well as music from their own youth.

Sources

  1. Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Tillmann, B., Perrin, F., & Heine, L. (2020). A cross-sectional study of reminiscence bumps for music-related memories in adulthood. Music & Science, 3.