Name or hum that tune : Feeling of knowing for music

• Published in: Memory & cognition Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 1131 - 1137
• Main Authors: PEYNIRCIOGLU, Z. F, TEKCAN, A. I, WAGNER, J. L, BAXTER, T. L, SHAFFER, S. D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.11.1998; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Auditory Perception; Biological and medical sciences; Experiments; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Human; Humans; Learning. Memory; Male; Memory; Mental Recall; Music; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Retention (Psychology); Verbal Learning; Human; Metamemory; Cognition; Experimental study; Music; Memory
• ISSN: 0090-502X; 1532-5946
• DOI: 10.3758/BF03201190

This is the first reported research that explores the feeling of knowing (FOK) for musical stimuli. Subjects attempted to recall melodies and titles of musical pieces, made FOK ratings when recall failed, and then had a recognition test. With instrumental music (Experiment 1), more titles were recalled when melodies were given as cues than vice versa. With songs whose lyrics were not presented (Experiment 2), however, more melodies were recalled than were titles. For nonrecalled items, although the overall levels of recognition did not differ, FOK ratings were higher for titles than for melodies in Experiment 1, and the opposite pattern occurred in Experiment 2. In both experiments, the FOK ratings predicted melody recognition more accurately than they did title recognition.