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Mood Judgments And Memory For Tunes: A Special Case Of Levels Of Processing?, Andrea Halpern, Esra Mungan, Zehra F. Peynircioğlu
Mood Judgments And Memory For Tunes: A Special Case Of Levels Of Processing?, Andrea Halpern, Esra Mungan, Zehra F. Peynircioğlu
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Although levels of processing (LOP) effects are well-established in memory research, beneficial effects of “deep” orienting tasks have rarely been reported in studies of tune memory. Our prior work implicated mood judgments as one candidate for a beneficial orienting task. The current series explored both the robustness and potential explanations for that enhancement. In four experiments, we varied type of processing tasks (including mood and other putatively deep/conceptual and shallow/ perceptual tasks) and the familiarity of the tunes in a recognition paradigm, which included “remember/know” judgments. Experiment 1, with low-familiarity tunes, revealed a LOP effect for two conceptual (mood, continuation) …