Listeners remember music they like

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 700-716

  Stalinski, Stephanie M ^a   Glenn Schellenberg, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotion; Exposure; Liking; Memory; Music

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MUSIC; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84882939229     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029671     Document Type: Article

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