Music psychology honors project idea, (music, emotion, memory of words in passages and methods to measure it) (Daniel Ladwig )

Subject: Music psychology honors project idea, (music, emotion, memory of words in passages and methods to measure it) From: Daniel Ladwig <clarinetbuddy8@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:21:24 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> --0-1645128008-1236050484=:69800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello to all to whom certain,=20 I'm a undergraduate psychology student who is applying to do a honor projec= t thesis in the next coming year.=20 I'm interested in music, emotion, and memory. If different music types of e= motions (happy and sad) effect peoples memory on recalling certain ideas an= d words in passages.=20 My problem is that I'm having trouble finding the correct method to measure= this information. None of my professors really know either. I've tried to = study (LSA) Latent Semantic Analysis for a while but it's way too to confus= ing for me to understand.=20 I am wondering if their are any other methods that would be useful for this= study and easier to understand? If anyone has any good advice and methods = ideas please let me know! My time is short right now, so any help would be = greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and there is more information about my study at the= bottom. Thank you again,=20 ~Dan Ladwig People have always done studies proving that happy and sad music can effect emotion and memory. They have the people look at a list of word lists and memorize them. We say, if a person is listening to happy mus= ic, they will recall the happy words more than the sad words. It would just be = the opposite for people who listen to sad music.=C2=A0=20 This study has been done a number of times. The evidence shows different emotions effect the memory of the music they portray. People also have an easier time guessing the words and having better accuracy.=C2=A0 A word lis= t is not very significant because it does not deal with real life events and contains very little variation.= =20 I would like to take the study up a notch. I would still have the people li= sten to happy and sad music. Other than using word lists, they would be given different paragraph passage s to read.=C2=A0 The passages would contain words that would trigger certain ideas or feelin= gs that are usually be considered happy or sad emotions.=C2=A0=20 For example, "Johnny went with his friend Jennifer to the ice cream store. = Chocolate was Johnny=E2=80=99s favorite flavor.=C2=A0 While Johnny was walk= ing on the sidewalk licking his ice cream, he tripped over a rock and the ice cream fell to the ground.=C2=A0 Jennifer agreed to buy Johnny another ice cream because she cares for him a lot."=20 That was just an example, but it would be much harder for students to remem= ber certain words without being effected by the emotion that the words portray = and influenced by the type of music in the background.=20 I mainly want to find out if students can recall happy words while listenin= g to happy music and students who recall sad words within passages while listeni= ng to sad music.=C2=A0 Mainly want to see how accurate they can be and if music really does effect peoples emotions and memory whi= le listening to music. =20=20=20=20=20=20= --0-1645128008-1236050484=:69800 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline <table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" border=3D"0" ><tr><td valign=3D"= top" style=3D"font: inherit;"><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"= text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><meta name=3D"ProgId" content=3D"Word.Document"= ><meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 11"><meta name=3D"Origi= nator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 11"><style>  </style> Hello to all to whom certain, I'm a undergraduate psychology student who is applying to do a hon= or project thesis in the next coming year. I= 'm interested in music, emotion, and memory. If different music types of em= otions (happy and sad) effect peoples memory on recalling certain ideas and= words in passages. My problem is that I'm h= aving trouble finding the correct method to measure this information. None = of my professors really know either. I've tried to study (LSA) Latent Seman= tic Analysis for a while but it's way too to confusing for me to understand= . I am wondering if their are any other meth= ods that would be useful for this study and easier to understand? If anyone= has any good advice and methods ideas please let me know! My time is short= right now, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time= and there is more information about my study at the bottom. Thank you again, ~Dan Ladwig People have always done studies proving that happy and sad music can effect emotion and memory. They have the people look at a list of word lists and memorize them. We say, if a person is listening to happy mus= ic, they will recall the happy words more than the sad words. It would just be = the opposite for people who listen to sad music.  This study has been done a number of times. The evidence shows different emotions effect the memory of the music they portray. People also have an easier time guessing the words and having better accuracy.=   A word list is not very significant because it does not deal with real life events and contains very little variation. = I would like to take the study up a notch. I would still have the people li= sten to happy and sad music. Other than using word lists, they would be given different paragraph passage s to read.  The passages would contain words that would trigger certain ideas or= feelings that are usually be considered happy or sad emotions.&nbsp= ; For example, "Johnny went with his friend Jennifer to the ice cream store. Chocolate was Johnny=E2=80=99s favorite f= lavor.  While Johnny was walking on the sidewa= lk licking his ice cream, he tripped over a rock and the ice cream fell to the ground.  Jennifer agreed to buy Johnny another ice cream because she cares for him a lot." That was just an example, but it would be much harder for students to remem= ber certain words without being effected by the emotion that the words portray = and influenced by the type of music in the background. I mainly want to find out if students can recall happy words while listenin= g to happy music and students who recall sad words within passages while listeni= ng to sad music.  Mainly want to see how accurate they can be and if music really does effect peoples emotions and memory whi= le listening to music. </td></tr></table> =20=20=20=20=20=20= --0-1645128008-1236050484=:69800--

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