The research subjects, all UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students, were subsequently asked to remember as many details as they could from each movie as the music played.
In one instance, movies were played without music. Subjects first listened to unfamiliar music, and then, a week later, listened to the music again, this time paired with likewise unfamiliar movie clips. Thus, this is the first research to link two of the most common phenomena people experience with music - earworms (having a song stuck in your head) and music-evoked remembering.įor their latest study, the researchers worked with 25 to 31 different people in each of three experiments, over three different days, spaced weeks apart. This new research offers an initial glimpse into these mechanisms and, somewhat surprisingly, finds that the songs that get stuck in your head help that process of strengthening memories as they first form, the authors said. Co-authors are Janata and Benjamin Kubit, a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience, both of the UC Davis Department of Psychology, and Center for Mind and Brain. The paper, “Spontaneous Mental Replay of Music Improves Memory for Incidentally Associated Event Knowledge,” was published online in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. What hasn’t been understood to date is how those memories form in the first place and how they become so durable, such that just hearing a bit of a song can trigger vivid remembering. “Scientists have known for some time that music evokes autobiographical memories, and that those are among the emotional experiences with music that people cherish most,” said Petr Janata, UC Davis professor of psychology and co-author on a new study. New research from UC Davis suggests these experiences are more than a passing nuisance - they play an important role in helping memories form, not only for the song, but also related life events like hanging out with friends - or watching other people hang with their friends on the ’90s television show, Friends.
I REMEMBER SONG TV
If you have watched TV since the ’90s, the sitcom theme song, “I’ll Be There For You,” has likely been stuck in your head at one point or another.
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month or even your year… It's like you're always stuck in second gear, Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's DOA. So, no one told you life was going to be this way.
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