Mar 6, 2024
The right song can make us feel chills, help pull us out of a
bad mood, or take us back in time to the first time we heard it.
Elizabeth Margulis, PhD, director of the Music Cognition Lab at
Princeton University, talks about how music, memory, emotion and
imagination intertwine; why people are especially attached to music
from their teen years; whether there’s any music that’s considered
universally beautiful; why repetition is important in music; and
why we so often get “earworms” stuck in our head.
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of Psychology Homepage.