{"id":2500,"date":"2026-09-09T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legatto.space\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2026-09-09T03:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:06:51","slug":"musica-ayuda-recordar-lugares-personas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legatto.space\/en\/musica-ayuda-recordar-lugares-personas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does music help us remember places and people?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- LEGATTO \u00b7 M\u00d3DULO HTML T\u00edtulo en WordPress: \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 la m\u00fasica nos ayuda a recordar lugares y personas? 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#f0cf43;border-radius:0 14px 14px 0;background:#f4f3ee}.legatto-memoria details{padding:22px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #deded7}.legatto-memoria summary{font-size:20px}.legatto-memoria details p{font-size:16px;line-height:1.65}.legatto-memoria .sources{margin:46px 0 18px;padding:28px;border-radius:16px;background:#f4f3ee}.legatto-memoria .sources h2{margin:0 0 15px;font-size:27px}.legatto-memoria .sources li,.legatto-memoria .fine{font-size:14px;line-height:1.58}@media(max-width:700px){.legatto-memoria{font-size:17px}.legatto-memoria h2{margin-top:46px}.legatto-memoria .constellation{grid-template-columns:1fr}.legatto-memoria .answer{padding:25px}}<br \/><\/style>\n<article>\n<header>\n<p>Music and autobiographical memory<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we don&#039;t remember a date first. We remember a drum intro, the acoustics of a room, a voice coming from the car. Then a person, a street, or an older version of ourselves appears.<\/p>\n<aside><strong>Short answer:<\/strong> Music can aid memory because it is associated with contexts, emotions, repetitions, and relationships. A song becomes a clue: it doesn&#039;t store a memory like a sealed box, but it can reactivate a network of details, sensations, and meanings associated with a lived experience. Neuroscience and cognitive psychology studies show that these <em>autobiographical memories evoked by music<\/em> (MEAMs) are usually more vivid, emotional, and socially rich than those evoked by faces, photographs, or television programs.<\/aside>\n<\/header>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1611001716885-b3402558a62b?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1800&amp;q=85\" alt=\"Reproductor de casetes con aud\u00edfonos\" \/><figcaption>Formats change; the association between a song and a personal period can remain. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-cassette-player-with-headphones-attached-to-it-Rks6FTfX5OU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florian Schmetz \/ Unsplash<\/a>, Unsplash license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>A song can be a coordinate, not a time machine<\/h2>\n<p>The investigation calls <em>autobiographical memories evoked by music<\/em> (MEAMs) refers to those memories from one&#039;s own life that arise when listening to a piece of music. They can be very specific\u2014a particular afternoon, a person, a season\u2014or more general\u2014school years, a city, a relationship. Music doesn&#039;t trigger the same memory for everyone: its power depends on each person&#039;s listening history.<\/p>\n<p>This helps explain something seemingly strange: two people can listen to the exact same song and experience completely different worlds. For one, it might simply be a pleasant piece; for the other, a gateway to a home, a relationship, a summer, or a moment that seemed forgotten. <strong>Acoustic information is shared, but the autobiographical network it encounters upon entering our memory is profoundly individual.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pioneering work of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC2758676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petr Janata (2009)<\/a><\/strong> It showed that the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) acts as a hub that integrates the tonal structure of music with autobiographical and emotional information. When we listen to familiar songs from our youth, this region responds in proportion to the autobiographical salience of the memory and, at the same time, tracks the melody&#039;s movements through tonal space.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is particularly intriguing because it suggests that, while we follow a melody, our brain may be simultaneously processing the music happening right now and a network of meanings built up over years. The song then functions as a kind of coordinate system: simply recognizing some of its features is enough to trigger the emergence of other related pieces of information.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s also important not to idealize the process. Remembering is reconstructing. A song can evoke an intensely powerful impression, and yet some details change over time. That doesn&#039;t diminish the experience; it reminds us that memory is alive, interpretive, and personal. Diary studies like the one by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0305735619888803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakubowski and Ghosh (2021)<\/a><\/strong> They confirm that MEAMs occur, on average, once a day in everyday life, are usually involuntary, highly vivid and charged with social themes and positive or mixed emotions (happiness, nostalgia).<\/p>\n<h2>The three connections that usually make a song unforgettable<\/h2>\n<section>\n<h3>Context<\/h3>\n<p>The place, the people, the light, the journey, or the routine present while it was playing. The music becomes part of a scene; it doesn&#039;t float in isolation. Research shows that MEAMs frequently contain specific people and places.<\/p>\n<h3>Emotion<\/h3>\n<p>A song shared during a moment of heightened emotion can acquire a meaning that transcends its chords or lyrics. The emotional intensity facilitates the consolidation and subsequent reactivation of the memory.<\/p>\n<h3>Repetition<\/h3>\n<p>Hearing it repeatedly during a particular stage of life gives one opportunities to connect with the changes, decisions, and relationships of that period. Familiarity is one of the strongest predictors of the emergence of MEAMs (Memory, Experience, and Relationship).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>These three dimensions often blend together. A song we listen to repeatedly while sharing a significant moment with certain people accumulates opportunities for association. Each listening can add a small layer: a different journey, a conversation, a smell, a room, an emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, listening to it again can activate several of those layers at once. That&#039;s why some musical memories seem to have a depth difficult to capture in a single photograph. We don&#039;t necessarily see a static scene: we can feel as if we&#039;re stepping back into the <em>atmosphere<\/em> of an era.<\/p>\n<h2>From sound to memory: a possible journey<\/h2>\n<h3>1. You recognize a clue<\/h3>\n<p>It could be a timbre, a drum pattern, a word, or the harmonic color of an introduction. Even acoustic features like the energy or acoustic quality of the track influence the type of memory that emerges.<\/p>\n<h3>2. An atmosphere is activated<\/h3>\n<p>Before a complete story unfolds, a feeling often arises: speed, atmosphere, closeness, nervousness, or tranquility. Recent studies (2025) link low-energy, high-volume songs with calmer, more romantic, or melancholic memories, and energetic songs with social and exciting memories.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Associations appear<\/h3>\n<p>A face, a journey, a room, a conversation, or an era takes shape around that atmosphere. Compared to famous faces or television programs, MEAMs tend to contain more perceptual and internal details and a greater sense of &quot;reliving&quot; the event.<\/p>\n<h3>4. The present listens with the past<\/h3>\n<p>Today&#039;s songs don&#039;t sound exactly like they did back then: they also contain who you are now and what you know later. Furthermore, there&#039;s a particularly pronounced musical &quot;reminiscence bump&quot;: the music of adolescence and early adulthood evokes more memories than that of other stages of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t always remember a song; sometimes we remember who we were when the song found us.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Music can awaken a memory before we even know what it is.<\/h2>\n<p>A fascinating feature of musical memory is that the experience can begin before a clear narrative emerges. We hear three seconds of an introduction and immediately feel something: familiarity, expansion, discomfort, joy, or nostalgia. Only later does the question arise: <em>Where did I learn this from?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That order matters. Autobiographical memory doesn&#039;t always present itself as a file with a title, date, and description. Sometimes it appears first as a bodily or emotional sensation. Then the images are organized, and finally we recognize the scene: &quot;this was playing on that trip,&quot; &quot;I used to listen to this song with that person,&quot; &quot;this was in my room when I was seventeen.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s why music can trigger involuntary memories. We don&#039;t necessarily sit down to deliberately search for a past experience. The music might come on in a coffee shop, a movie, a car, or on a random playlist, and the association happens spontaneously. Studies on MEAMs (Memory-Effect Memory Associations) in everyday life demonstrate precisely the importance of this spontaneous occurrence.<\/p>\n<h2>Why do places and people so easily enter a song?<\/h2>\n<p>We listen to music while doing other things: traveling, working, waiting, celebrating, finishing something, or meeting someone. This simultaneity creates associations. If a song reappears in similar contexts, the connection can be strengthened. That&#039;s why a chorus can conjure up a landscape even if it doesn&#039;t name it, or a sonic texture can bring back memories of a friend even if we&#039;ve never talked about music together.<\/p>\n<p>Places, moreover, are multisensory experiences. A city isn&#039;t remembered solely as an image: it has movement, temperature, reverberation, voices, everyday rhythms, and ambient sounds. Music can be integrated into that whole. Years later, a song can function as the piece that temporarily reunites some of those elements.<\/p>\n<p>Something similar happens with people. A relationship can accumulate a small music library without anyone planning it: songs listened to in the car, shared albums, concerts, background music at home, or pieces discovered during a conversation. When that relationship changes or ends, the songs remain available and can continue to function as autobiographical clues.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics also matter, but they aren&#039;t the only way. A rhythm can evoke a way of walking; a reverb effect, a space; a voice, a sense of closeness. The nonverbal qualities of music are especially good at creating atmospheres that are difficult to summarize in a sentence. Works by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09658211.2015.1061012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Belfi and collaborators<\/a><\/strong> They demonstrated that MEAMs are significantly more vivid than memories evoked by famous faces: they contain more perceptual and internal details.<\/p>\n<p>In clinical settings, a systematic review of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/wcs.1627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaiser and Berntsen (2023)<\/a><\/strong> The study found that familiar music continues to evoke autobiographical memories in people with Alzheimer&#039;s, often with a relative advantage over images, and that these memories are typically retrieved quickly and specifically. The prefrontal cortex (PFC), one of the last regions to atrophy in this disease, appears to remain a key node for this connection.<\/p>\n<h2>Musical nostalgia is not simply sadness<\/h2>\n<p>When a song transports us to another era, it&#039;s common to describe the experience as nostalgia. But musical nostalgia can contain seemingly contradictory emotions: joy for what we experienced, sadness for its absence, gratitude, loss, tenderness, or even surprise at the person we once were.<\/p>\n<p>This blend helps us understand why some songs evoke such a difficult-to-define emotion. We can enjoy listening to them and, at the same time, feel a certain melancholy. Musical memory allows past and present to be psychologically close for a few minutes, even though we know they belong to different times.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the same piece of music can change its meaning. The song that represented a relationship when we were twenty might, years later, represent an entire city; still later, it might simply represent that version of ourselves. <strong>Music remains relatively stable while our autobiographical interpretation continues to transform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Why does the music of our youth seem to stay with us so deeply?<\/h2>\n<p>In studies on autobiographical memory, a phenomenon known as <em>reminiscence bump<\/em>When looking back, people often recall a particularly high number of memories from certain years of adolescence and early adulthood. In music, this effect can be especially noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>Between the ages of approximately 10 and 25, numerous significant processes occur simultaneously: we discover artists for the first time, develop our own tastes, build our identity, form important relationships, and undergo novel experiences. Music accompanies many of these processes and is often listened to repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>A song discovered during those years can then possess several favorable ingredients to become a powerful autobiographical track: novelty, repetition, emotion, social belonging, and identity. This helps explain why, decades later, some people remember the songs of their adolescence with extraordinary ease, even though they have listened to thousands of new songs since then.<\/p>\n<aside><strong>An interesting observation:<\/strong> A \u201csong from our youth\u201d doesn\u2019t have to have been released when we were young. What\u2019s important for personal memory is also <em>when he came into our lives<\/em>. We can discover at age 17 a recording made thirty years earlier and deeply associate it with that period.<\/aside>\n<h2>Music also plays a part in our identity<\/h2>\n<p>Saying \u201cthis was our song,\u201d \u201cthis was my first record,\u201d or \u201cthis is what I listened to when I lived there\u201d shows that we use music to organize stories about ourselves. Songs can mark transitions: starting a relationship, moving to a new city, entering a school, going through a breakup, traveling alone for the first time, or discovering a community.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, these associations form something akin to a sonic map of a biography. Some artists represent individuals; certain albums represent entire years; specific styles evoke social spaces. Even temporarily abandoning a genre can become part of that story.<\/p>\n<p>Shared music adds another dimension. A song can simultaneously be individual and collective memory: I remember my experience, but I also remember that others were there. That&#039;s why concerts, parties, trips, family rituals, and generational songs can acquire such autobiographical power.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Music track<\/th>\n<th>What can awaken<\/th>\n<th>How to use it creatively<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>A voice or an accent<\/td>\n<td>Closeness, a person, a way of speaking, or a time.<\/td>\n<td>Record a sentence with two different distances to the microphone and choose the one that best conveys the relationship.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A time of travel<\/td>\n<td>Road, city, walk, wait, or shared movement.<\/td>\n<td>Build a song from the rhythm of a real journey, not from a randomly chosen BPM.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A house doorbell<\/td>\n<td>A room, a kitchen, an appliance, an afternoon at home.<\/td>\n<td>It incorporates its own ambient sound as a texture, intentionally and without overloading it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A persistent repetition<\/td>\n<td>A stage of life, a routine, or something we didn&#039;t want to let go of.<\/td>\n<td>Let a motif return, but change one detail each time to show the passage of time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Low energy + high acoustics<\/td>\n<td>More intimate, calm, romantic or nostalgic memories, often less social.<\/td>\n<td>Use soft textures and wide open spaces to invite introspection.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>High energy + low acoustics<\/td>\n<td>Social memories, of excitement, fun, or collective movement.<\/td>\n<td>It works with insistent rhythms and dynamics that invite the body.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1723926824069-5207f70e3ddf?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1800&amp;q=85\" alt=\"Aud\u00edfonos iluminados con colores azul y rojo\" \/><figcaption>Listening is not neutral: space, time, and attention also play a role in what a song comes to mean. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-pair-of-headphones-hanging-from-a-wall-8yX2nItvibQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Igor Omilaev \/ Unsplash<\/a>, Unsplash license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1514525253161-7a46d19cd819?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1800&amp;q=85\" alt=\"P\u00fablico en un concierto con luces\" \/><figcaption>Live or shared music reinforces the social anchoring of memories. Many MEAMs include other people and collective contexts. Unsplash stock photo (Unsplash license).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Listening can also be a way to explore our own history<\/h2>\n<p>Digital platforms allow us to access songs from virtually any stage of our lives in seconds. This has transformed our music libraries into more than just entertainment collections: they can also function as accidental autobiographical archives.<\/p>\n<p>An old playlist can reveal what we listened to during a certain period. An album can preserve the memory of a trip. Even a song we haven&#039;t listened to for years can instantly evoke an association that seemed to have vanished.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon also invites us to listen in a different way. Instead of only asking questions <em>\u201cDo I like this song?\u201d<\/em>, We can ask ourselves: <strong>What part of my life has become linked to it? What space appears? Who is present? What musical detail triggers the memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answer might teach us something about music itself. Perhaps we&#039;ll discover that what connects us to a piece isn&#039;t its complete lyrics, but four synthesizer notes, the breath before the chorus, a particular chord, or the grainy texture of a recording.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Exercise: Draw your personal sound map<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose three songs: one associated with a place, one with a person, and one with a stage of life.<\/li>\n<li>For each one, note down five sensory details before writing a story: light, smell, temperature, distance, texture, time of day.<\/li>\n<li>Listen for just 30 seconds and highlight the musical detail that opens the door: voice, drum hit, chord, silence, ambient sound.<\/li>\n<li>If you compose, take one detail from each list and transform it into a sound decision: register, instrument, rhythm, word, or space.<\/li>\n<li>See if the song belongs to your &quot;reminiscence bump&quot; (approximately 10-25 years). Many people find their strongest associations there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<h2>Memory as a tool for composing<\/h2>\n<p>For a composer, producer, or performer, understanding this relationship opens up exciting possibilities. Creating from memory doesn&#039;t necessarily mean writing autobiographical lyrics or literally explaining what happened. An experience can be transformed into purely musical decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The size of a room can become reverberation. The speed of a journey can suggest a pulse. An interrupted conversation can become an incomplete melodic phrase. A distant memory can be expressed through a filtered sound or a faraway recording. The repetition of a routine can become an ostinato.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, memory ceases to be solely <em>issue<\/em> of a song and can become <strong>composition material<\/strong>. Memory provides relationships between sound, space, time, and emotion that can later be musically abstracted.<\/p>\n<p>We can also reverse the process: ask ourselves what kind of memory we want a piece to help build. A song intended for a collective celebration can engage the body, repetition, and participation differently than a piece designed for intimate listening. We can&#039;t control what each listener will remember, but we can design musical experiences that accompany significant moments.<\/p>\n<aside><strong>Important precaution:<\/strong> Not all memories are lighthearted. If a song triggers intense discomfort, you don&#039;t have to force yourself to listen to it or turn it into creative material. Pausing, changing the song, or talking to someone you trust are also valid responses. In the context of depression, for example, emotional distress and emotional states (EDES) can include as many negative as positive valences.<\/aside>\n<h2>The personal can become universal without telling everything.<\/h2>\n<p>A song doesn&#039;t need to list facts to sound real. A concrete image\u2014a hallway, a missed call, the sound of a blind\u2014allows the listener to contribute their own life. Therein lies one of music&#039;s strangest virtues: it can preserve something intimate and, at the same time, make room for someone else&#039;s memory.<\/p>\n<p>A composition can be born from an extremely specific experience and end up meaning something completely different to the listener. The composer knows the origin; the listener constructs another network of associations. Over time, both stories can coexist around the same work.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that&#039;s why certain songs seem to grow with us. First, we become familiar with the piece. Then we hear it at some important moment. Years later, we no longer just hear the original recording: we also hear everything that happened around it.<\/p>\n<p>The research also shows that MEAMs tend to be more positive and personally meaningful than those evoked by other means. This combination of vividness, emotion, and social anchoring explains why so many people keep &quot;soundtracks&quot; to entire stages of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The song is still four minutes long. What changes is everything we&#039;ve learned to listen to within it.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<details>\n<summary>Why does a song make me cry even though I don&#039;t understand the lyrics?<\/summary>\n<p>Because musical meaning doesn&#039;t depend solely on words. Timbre, tempo, harmony, intensity, prior associations, and the present moment can all trigger a complex emotional response. The primary memory network and reward and emotion networks work together.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Do we all have songs that evoke memories?<\/summary>\n<p>The experience is very common, but it is not identical for everyone, nor does it occur with the same intensity. The associations depend on exposure, attention, personal history, and cultural context. Diary studies indicate that it occurs, on average, about once a day.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Can music bring back exact memories?<\/summary>\n<p>It can act as a clue and bring back vivid details, but autobiographical memory is reconstructive. It&#039;s important to distinguish between a very strong sense of familiarity and a guarantee of historical accuracy. Even so, MEAMs (Memorial Autobiographical Experiences) are usually recalled with greater episodic richness than those evoked by other clues.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How can I use memory in my songs without making them too literal?<\/summary>\n<p>Choose a sensory detail and translate it into sound or image. A specific object, texture, or gesture often suggests more than it explains the whole story. Pay attention also to features like energy or acoustics: they influence the emotional atmosphere of the memory that is evoked.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why does teenage music seem so powerful?<\/summary>\n<p>There is a particularly pronounced &quot;reminiscence bump&quot; for music: songs listened to between the ages of 10 and 25 evoke more autobiographical memories than those from other periods. This is related to identity formation, high exposure to music, and the emotional intensity of those years.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why can I remember where I was when I first heard a song?<\/summary>\n<p>A first listen might coincide with a novel or emotionally significant context. If the song is listened to again later, some elements of that context may be reinforced as autobiographical associations. This doesn&#039;t happen with all songs, but familiarity, repetition, emotion, and context foster this type of connection.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Can a song change its meaning over the years?<\/summary>\n<p>Yes. Autobiographical associations are not static. A song can begin linked to a person and end up representing an entire era, a place, or a past version of ourselves. Each new listening occurs from a different present.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the lyrics the most important thing for triggering memories?<\/summary>\n<p>Not necessarily. Lyrics can be a very powerful clue, but so can timbre, harmony, rhythm, a voice, production, a specific instrument, or even the first few seconds of an introduction. Many musical associations are perceptual and emotional before they become words.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<section>\n<h2>Sources and readings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC2758676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janata \u2013 The Neural Architecture of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories<\/a><\/strong> (Cerebral Cortex, 2009).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/psychology\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2021.648413\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frontiers in Psychology \u2013 Music-evoked autobiographical memories, people, places and events<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12367148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent research on auditory qualities and autobiographical memories evoked by music<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09658211.2015.1061012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belfi, Karlan &amp; Tranel \u2013 Music evokes vivid autobiographical memories<\/a><\/strong> (Memory, 2016).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0305735619888803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakubowski &amp; Ghosh \u2013 Music-evoked autobiographical memories in everyday life<\/a><\/strong> (Psychology of Music, 2021).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/wcs.1627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaiser &amp; Berntsen \u2013 The cognitive characteristics of music-evoked autobiographical memories: Evidence from a systematic review of clinical investigations<\/a><\/strong> (WIREs Cognitive Science, 2023).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0329072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nawaz &amp; Omigie \u2013 Qualities of music-evoked autobiographical memories are associated with auditory features of the memory-evoking music<\/a><\/strong> (PLOS ONE, 2025).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13421-025-01717-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evidence of temporal and emotional alignment between song cues and their evoked autobiographical memories<\/a><\/strong> (Memory &amp; Cognition, 2025).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/online.ucpress.edu\/mp\/article\/38\/5\/435\/117144\/Phenomenological-Differences-in-Music-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakubowski et al. \u2013 Phenomenological Differences in Music- and Television-Evoked Autobiographical Memories<\/a><\/strong> (Music Perception, 2021).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09658211.2024.2420973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories<\/a><\/strong> (Memory, 2025).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article is for informational purposes only. 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