phorest's Journal: Why your early adulthood music likely stays with you.

Unfortunately for my particular generation there may be a reason why songs like "Freebird" & "Fly Like An Eagle" stay with us.
Now if only someone can create a way to counter-act this phenomenon so one may actually enjoy hearing them again!

Link to Research.

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Link to the article below:
The songs we listen to as teenagers become our all-time favourites because they are hardwired into our brains, a new study has revealed.
The 'reminiscence bump' can be partly explained by what's called differential encoding, or an ability to store events better during early adulthood.
Janssen said: "You recall more memories from the period of 10 to 25 (than previous or subsequent periods) and the bump has a peak between 16 and 20.
"The brain works at its optimum in that period. It's a sponge and it soaks up everything." He also says that how often the songs are played is equally important.
During our teenage years we form personal connections with songs by playing them over and over again.
While music preferences were strongly linked to childhood hits, favourite books and movies were more likely to be those read or viewed recently.
He said: "All distributions showed a reminiscence bump so there's evidence that people store events better in their teens.
"However, I also found a larger recency effect for books and a larger reminiscence bump for records - so I suggest a kind of interaction between those two mechanisms.
"The results suggest that differential encoding initially causes the reminiscence bump, but resampling strengthens the bump." Janssen is a University of Amsterdam PhD student.