![]() ![]() Next, Krumhansl wants to find out if other generations have the same experiences with emotional memory and music, and try to trace influences back through multiple generations. ![]() (Props to you parents still hanging on to those mixtapes.) ![]() The introduction of cassette tapes in the 1960s made music more ubiquitous, and the same tapes were played long after that decade ended. But it turned out their memories came not from current listening, but from hearing it when they were younger. Krumhansl thought the students might have memories of 60s music because it lives on as classic rock. But the top pop songs of that era used in the study also included "The Ballad of the Green Berets," "To Sir with Love" and "Sugar Sugar," so maybe it's not just that. The 1960s music may evoke strong memories in 20-somethings because of the quality, Krumhansl speculates. After hearing less than a second of a song, people can "come up with the title and the artist," Krumhansl says. She and her colleague, Justin Adam Zupnick of the University of California, Santa Cruz, were even more surprised to see the second "reminiscence bump" in emotion and memory for top hits from 1965 to 1969.Īnd the human brain remembers music with extraordinary detail, unlike spoken words, in which people remember just the gist. "We didn't have any idea" that young adults had strong personal memories of the music of the early 1980s, Krumhansl told Shots. So the researchers figured that today's 20-year-olds would be all about Rihanna and the Black Eyed Peas. They were also asked if they had memories associated with the songs and if those memories were from listening with parents, alone, or with others.Įarlier research has found that the music heard in late adolescence and early adulthood has the most impact and staying power through a person's life. The researchers quizzed them on which songs they recognized, how much they liked them and their emotional responses. More than 60 student volunteers (average age 20) listened to short clips of the top two pop and rock songs for each year. So the researchers decided to try to nail down what was happening, using clips from hits off Billboard lists from 1955 to 2009. Even more surprising, they liked the older stuff more. The scientists had been testing musical memory in an earlier study, and were surprised to find that college-age participants could identify older pop and rock songs just as quickly as the new stuff. ![]() The study was published online in the journal Psychological Science. And the 20-year-olds of today liked the older songs as much as the new stuff they listen to with peers.įor real? "They would hear this music and say, 'Oh yeah, that's my parents' music,' with obvious fondness," says Carol Lynne Krumhansl, the psychology professor at Cornell University who led the study. They also loved the music of the '60s, which their grandparents may have been blasting while changing Mom's diapers. Participants in a study on musical memory didn't just say they remembered and loved the music that was popular in the early '80s, when their parents were young. That flies in the face of the cultural stereotype that children reject their parents' taste in music. Young adults have strong positive memories of the music their parents loved when they were the same age, a study finds. Way back in the 1980s, were you the one playing "When Doves Cry" over and over? Well, don't be surprised if your kids wind up doing the same thing. ![]()
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