Findings of Rickard et al., ( 2012 ; Experiment 2) showed that more details of an emotional story were retained over 7 days when learning was followed by background sound or arousing music (marginally significant), and reduced when learning was followed by relaxing music (compared to a neutral story condition).
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Wakeful resting and listening to music contrast their effects on verbal long-term memory in dependence on word concreteness.
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