Impaired recognition of scary music following unilateral temporal lobe excision — Gosselin et al. 128 (3): 628 — Brain

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/3/628

There is something to this. I notice that every time I put on Orff
many people say, "that's the music from The Omen."
Then again, everyone remembers John Williams' cinematic music for JAWS.

/ias