Commentary: Emotion effects on implicit and explicit musical memory in normal aging

Frontiers in Psychology

Nicola Mammarella¹ 

关键词: implicit memory;    emotion;    aging;    positivity bias;    music cognition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02208

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Implicit emotional memory refers to unconscious retrieval of past emotional experiences (e.g., Graf and Schacter, 1985). The study by Narme et al. (2016) is one of the first to examine age-related changes in implicit emotional memory using unfamiliar emotional melodies that varied in terms of valence (positive: peaceful and happy; negative: sad and fearful) and arousal (high or low). Implicit memory was assessed with a preference task in which participants rated their liking of previously studied or new melodies. In particular, 113 participants were involved, 60 younger adults (58.3% women, mean age 23.6) and 53 older adults (68% women, mean age 75.3). These two groups of participants first heard a list of musical excerpts and then they had to indicate whether each musical piece had a fast or slow tempo. Half of melodies were played twice and the other half six times. Subsequently, participants were asked to rate how much they liked each melody using a 10-point scale (from 1 = I do not like it at all to 10 = I like it a lot) for old and new excerpts.

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