Music, emotion, and autobiographical memory: They're playing your song

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 948-955

  Schulkind, Matthew D ^a   Hennis, Laura Kate ^b   Rubin, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MUSIC; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032725085     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201225     Document Type: Article

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