Music, emotion, and autobiographical memory: They're playing your song
Schulkind, Hennis and Rubin: older and younger adults heard 20-second excerpts of 20th-century popular songs, rated emotion and liking, identified title, artist and year, and did cued lyric recall; older adults rated songs from their youth as most emotional and remembered more about them; excerpts rarely triggered specific autobiographical events; emotion and memory were positively correlated, more strongly in older adults. Memory & Cognition 27(6), 948-955, 1999.
Schulkind, Hennis and Rubin: older and younger adults heard 20-second excerpts of 20th-century popular songs, rated emotion and liking, identified title, artist and year, and did cued lyric recall; older adults rated songs from their youth as most emotional and remembered more about them; excerpts rarely triggered specific autobiographical events; emotion and memory were positively correlated, more strongly in older adults. Memory & Cognition 27(6), 948-955, 1999.
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Schulkind, M. D., Hennis, L. K., & Rubin, D. C. (1999). Music, emotion, and autobiographical memory: They're playing your song. Memory & Cognition, 27(6), 948-955. doi:10.3758/bf03201225 https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03201225