Happy notes, happy memories

(Springer) Happy memories spring to mind much faster than sad, scary or peaceful ones. Moreover, if you listen to happy or peaceful music, you recall positive memories, whereas if you listen to emotionally scary or sad music, you recall largely negative memories from your past. Those are two of the findings from an experiment conducted by Signy Sheldon and Julia Donahue of McGill University in Canada, and reported in the journal Memory & Cognition.