Previous research has shown that the music we encounter during late adolescence and early adulthood has the greatest impact on our lives. That is, participants seemed to demonstrate a particular affinity for the songs their parents were listening to as young adults. This finding makes sense – we recall more recent songs better, ascribe memories to them more easily, and feel a stronger emotional connection with them.īut the more surprising finding - one which the researchers didn’t expect to see - was a drastic bump in memories, recognition, perceived quality, liking, and emotional connection with the music that was popular in the early 1980s, when the participants’ parents were about 20-25 years old. The data revealed that participants’ personal memories associated with songs increased steadily as they got older, from birth until the present day. In addition, participants were asked whether they remembered listening to the song by themselves, with their parents, or amongst friends. The researchers wanted to see which periods of music were most memorable for the participants, which songs conjured up the strongest feelings, and which ones made the participants happy, sad, energized, or nostalgic. To explore the connection between autobiographical memories and musical memories, Krumhansl and Justin Zupnick of the University of California, Santa Cruz asked 62 college-age participants to listen to two top Billboard hits per year from 1955 to 2009. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that while songs that were popular in our early 20s seem to have the greatest lasting emotional impact, music that was popular during our parents’ younger days also evokes vivid memories. “These new findings point to the impact of music in childhood and likely reflect the prevalence of music in the home environment.” “Music transmitted from generation to generation shapes autobiographical memories, preferences, and emotional responses, a phenomenon we call cascading ‘reminiscence bumps,’” explains psychological scientist and lead researcher Carol Lynne Krumhansl of Cornell University. New research suggests that young adults today are fond of and have an emotional connection to the music that was popular for their parents’ generation. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.Music has an uncanny way of bringing us back to a specific point in time, and each generation seems to have its own opinions about which tunes will live on as classics. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
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