The present study investigated the effects of pairing a comedic movie trailer with emotive music on subsequent recognition memory of the events depicted in the trailer. In an independent groups design, the comedic trailer was paired with happy music (congruent condition) or sad music (incongruent condition). A no music condition served as the control condition. The results showed that participants in the incongruent condition displayed a recognition memory advantage for visual test items over participants in the congruent and control conditions. While changes in self-reported positive and negative affect did not correlate significantly with recognition memory, the perception of emotion-specific categories did. These findings help to establish an empirical basis of ironic contrast techniques and propose an affective component in the integration and representation of audiovisual action that is likely to emerge where a participant perceives or recognizes expressed emotions in music, without necessarily feeling an overall positive or negative affect.

本研究调查了将喜剧电影预告片与情感音乐配对对预告片中描述的事件的后续识别记忆的影响。在独立的团体设计中，喜剧预告片与快乐音乐（一致条件）或悲伤音乐（不一致条件）配对。无音乐条件用作控制条件。结果表明，与处于一致和控制条件的参与者相比，不一致条件下的参与者对视觉测试项目显示出识别记忆优势。虽然自我报告的积极和消极情绪的变化与识别记忆没有显着相关性，但对特定情绪类别的感知却有。