Effects of background music on the remembering of filmed events
Boltz, Schulkind and Kantra, Memory and Cognition 19(6), 1991, 593-606. Background music in films was used to examine schematic processing. Music matching a scene's outcome mood and played with it aided remembering, music played before a scene and clashing with its mood also aided remembering, and unrecalled scenes were recognised when cued by their music. The authors attribute the effects to differently directed selective attention.
Boltz, Schulkind and Kantra, Memory and Cognition 19(6), 1991, 593-606. Background music in films was used to examine schematic processing. Music matching a scene's outcome mood and played with it aided remembering, music played before a scene and clashing with its mood also aided remembering, and unrecalled scenes were recognised when cued by their music. The authors attribute the effects to differently directed selective attention.
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Boltz, M., Schulkind, M., & Kantra, S. (1991). Effects of background music on the remembering of filmed events. Memory & Cognition, 19(6), 593-606. doi:10.3758/BF03197154 https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197154