【时文阅读训练】歌曲能量强度关联记忆效果-Energy levels of songs affect memories

Energy levels of songs affect memories   (28th August 2025)

A new study has found that the energy levels of music affect what we remember. Two researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London looked into what kinds of memories people had after listening to different types of music. Music psychologist Safiyyah Nawaz and neuroscientist Dr Diana Omigie investigated how the tempo and mood of songs affected what people remembered about their life. The researchers found that high-energy music made people remember funny and happy events from their past. In contrast, slower and acoustic music brought back memories of calmness and sadness. It even made people recall romantic experiences.

The researchers asked 233 people about the sorts of memories they had after listening to music. The people listened to popular songs from their childhood and early adulthood. Dr Omigie said the feelings people had for music affected their memories. She said: "It's not just the musical features that influence memory, but also how much a person likes a song." Ms Nawaz said: "Acoustic songs were associated with memories that were more vivid, unique, and characterized by complex emotions like romance." She added that energetic songs were linked to "social, exciting, high-energy memories". The research will be put into a database of musical memories on the website memoryrecords.xyz.

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1.	study (noun)	a.	A person who studies how people think and feel.
2.	affect	b.	How someone feels at a certain time.
3.	psychologist	c.	Research done to learn new information about something.
4.	investigated	d.	Make a change in something or someone.
5.	tempo	e.	Looked at something carefully to find out more about it.
6.	mood	f.	The speed of music.
7.	acoustic	g.	Music that does not use electric instruments.

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8.

sorts (noun)

h.

Connected to or linked to something.

9.	popular	i.	Different groups of things.
10.	childhood	j.	Help change how someone thinks or acts.
11.	influence (verb)	k.	Very clear, strong, and easy to imagine.
12.	associated with	l.	Liked by many people.
13.	vivid	m.	Feelings like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, love, etc.
14.	emotions	n.	The time when someone is growing up; the time before adulthood.

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2. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if “1-8” below are true (T) or false (F).

1.       Researchers say music helps us remember when we were babies.      T / F
2.       A psychiatrist was one of the researchers who conducted the study.      T / F
3.       High energy music was most associated with unhappy memories.      T / F
4.       The researchers said acoustic music brought back romantic memories.     T / F
5.       Thousands of people answered questions about music and memories.      T / F
6.       People listened to songs that were popular in their childhood.      T / F
7.       How much people liked a song affected what they remembered.      T / F
8.       The research is going to be published in a book of memories.      T / F

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3. SYNONYM MATCH: (The words in bold are from the news article.)

1. found
2. different
3. tempo
4. past
5. recall
6. popular
7. influence
8. associated with
9. complex
10. memories

1. effect
2. beat
3. linked to
4. various
5. complicated
6. life
7. discovered
8. well liked
9. recollections
10. remember

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