Newswise — Psychologists and medical researchers for years have used familiar tunes to study brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, but they’ve never had a common set of songs to draw from. A new study by a neuroscientist at Missouri S&T may give those researchers a list of “greatest hits” to aid in their future studies.
Dr. Amy Belfi, assistant professor of psychological science at Missouri S&T, developed a list of 107 well-known tunes she calls the “famous melodies stimulus set” and tested the tunes to see how well people may recall or name a song, as well as how it makes them feel. She describes her work in a recent research paper in the journal Behavior Research Methods. Working with Belfi was Missouri S&T student Kaelyn Kacirek, a senior in engineering management from Kansas City, Missouri.
In their work, Belfi and Kacirek evaluated how…
