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Using music to cue autobiographical memories of different lifetime periods

Elizabeth T. Cady

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, USA, etcady{at}yahoo.com

Richard Jackson Harris

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, USA, rjharris{at}ksu.edu

J. Bret Knappenberger

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, USA, jbretk{at}hotmail.com

Little previous research has examined the link between popular music and autobiographical memory. College-age participants recalled a memory associated with a song from each of five lifetime eras and then described and rated the memories. Participants heard part of the song, read the lyrics, saw a picture of the artist or began describing their memory immediately. Ratings for vividness, specificity, feeling brought back and feeling emotional in connection with the memory were all significantly different across lifetime eras. Differences also existed between sensory conditions in memory description length, feeling brought back and feeling emotional. However, hearing the song did not produce higher ratings than all the other sensory conditions. These findings show that music is a valuable cue to evoke autobiographical memory.

Key Words: college students • emotion • recall • song

This version was published on April 1, 2008

Psychology of Music, Vol. 36, No. 2, 157-177 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0305735607085010
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