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

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

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