Memory modulations through musical pleasure

Ferreri, Laura; Rodrı́guez-Fornells, Antoni

doi:10.1111/nyas.14867

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“…9B-C). While previous work has found that pleasure evoked by music can boost associative memory for non-musical information encoded during listening (in particular, through dopaminergic modulation of memory consolidation; see Ferreri & Rodriguez-Fornells, 2022), the present results indicate that such mood induction may not be sufficient to impact deliberate autobiographical recall. Alternatively, because hearing music may most strongly influence emotionally congruent memories (i.e., positively valenced music impacts positively valenced memories), it is possible that mismatch between music-evoked emotions and the emotional content of prompted memories diminished such effects (Sheldon et al, 2020;Talamini et al, 2022).…”

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Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Bloom

Bartlett

Kathios

et al. 2023

Memory

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Familiar music facilitates memory retrieval in adults with dementia. However, mechanisms behind this effect, and its generality, are unclear because of a lack of parallel work in healthy aging. Exposure to familiar music enhances spontaneous recall of memories directly cued by the music, but it is unknown whether such effects extend to deliberate recall more generally-e.g., to memories not directly linked to the music being played. It is also unclear whether familiar music boosts recall of specific episodes versus more generalized semantic memories, or whether effects are driven by domain-general mechanisms (e.g., improved mood). In a registered report study, we examined effects of familiar music on deliberate recall in healthy adults ages 65-80 years (N=75) by presenting familiar music from earlier in life, unfamiliar music, and non-musical audio clips across three sessions. After each clip, we assessed free recall of remote memories for pre-selected events. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found no effects of music exposure on recall of prompted events, though familiar music evoked spontaneous memories most often. These results suggest that effects of familiar music on recall may be limited to memories specifically evoked in response to the music (Preprint and registered report protocol at https://osf.io/kjnwd/).'which school did you attend') developed based on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE; Folstein et al., 1975), and caregivers verified correct answers. In a different experiment, 10 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease scored higher on average on the Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI; Kopelman et al., 1989) following listening to Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' than following silence (Irish et al., 2006). In addition, effects of music on autobiographical recall were stronger for remote memories (events occurring from 0-20 years of age) than mid-remote (20-50 years) or recent memories ('the recent past or present') across several studies using MMSE-based questions to evaluate retrieval (Foster & Valentine, 2001;García et al., 2012).The studies mentioned above played all participants the same pieces of music. This leaves open the possibility that the music may have been familiar to some individuals and not others. However, clinical work has emphasized the benefits of individualized music, or music particularly familiar to a given patient (Gerdner, 2000(Gerdner, , 2012Gerdner et al., 2000;Thomas et al., 2017). In two studies, Alzheimer's patients showed better autobiographical memory recall with exposure to self-chosen music relative to experimenter-chosen music (El Haj et al., 2015;. Those studies used the TEMPau scale to score the specificity of freely recalled autobiographical narratives on a scale from 0-4 (Piolino et al., 2009). Self-chosen music, relative

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Section: Music-evoked Affect Was Not Sufficient To Impact Deliberate ...contrasting

confidence: 94%

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Bloom

Bartlett

Kathios

et al. 2023

Memory

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“…Meanwhile, listening to music often seems to lead to automatic and implicit learning of its structure ( Loui and Wessel, 2007 , 2008 ; Loui et al, 2010 ; Hansen and Pearce, 2014 ; Barascud et al, 2016 ). Better recollection of musical pieces, indicative of learning, is also associated with greater pleasure during listening – unless dopaminergic signaling is dampened (reviewed in Ferreri and Rodriguez-Fornells, 2022 ). These findings suggest that musical reward and pleasure may at least in part arise from gaining information about musical structure, i.e., sensory events (see, e.g., Vuust and Kringelbach, 2010 ; Zald and Zatorre, 2011 ; Gebauer et al, 2012 ; Koelsch et al, 2019 ; Vander Elst et al, 2021 ).…”

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Auditory and reward structures reflect the pleasure of musical expectancies during naturalistic listening

Gold,

Pearce,

McIntosh

et al. 2023

Front. Neurosci.

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Enjoying music consistently engages key structures of the neural auditory and reward systems such as the right superior temporal gyrus (R STG) and ventral striatum (VS). Expectations seem to play a central role in this effect, as preferences reliably vary according to listeners’ uncertainty about the musical future and surprise about the musical past. Accordingly, VS activity reflects the pleasure of musical surprise, and exhibits stronger correlations with R STG activity as pleasure grows. Yet the reward value of musical surprise – and thus the reason for these surprises engaging the reward system – remains an open question. Recent models of predictive neural processing and learning suggest that forming, testing, and updating hypotheses about one’s environment may be intrinsically rewarding, and that the constantly evolving structure of musical patterns could provide ample opportunity for this procedure. Consistent with these accounts, our group previously found that listeners tend to prefer melodic excerpts taken from real music when it either validates their uncertain melodic predictions (i.e., is high in uncertainty and low in surprise) or when it challenges their highly confident ones (i.e., is low in uncertainty and high in surprise). An independent research group (Cheung et al., 2019) replicated these results with musical chord sequences, and identified their fMRI correlates in the STG, amygdala, and hippocampus but not the VS, raising new questions about the neural mechanisms of musical pleasure that the present study seeks to address. Here, we assessed concurrent liking ratings and hemodynamic fMRI signals as 24 participants listened to 50 naturalistic, real-world musical excerpts that varied across wide spectra of computationally modeled uncertainty and surprise. As in previous studies, liking ratings exhibited an interaction between uncertainty and surprise, with the strongest preferences for high uncertainty/low surprise and low uncertainty/high surprise. FMRI results also replicated previous findings, with music liking effects in the R STG and VS. Furthermore, we identify interactions between uncertainty and surprise on the one hand, and liking and surprise on the other, in VS activity. Altogether, these results provide important support for the hypothesized role of the VS in deriving pleasure from learning about musical structure.

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“…Music-driven emotional modulations can play a role in boosting cognitive, social and motor functions (Chanda et al, 2013;Ferreri et al, 2022;Fiveash et al, 2023;Fukui et al, 2014;Ripollés et al, 2016). A recent study found that listening to groovy (i.e., related to the pleasure and urge to move) music (featuring low to medium syncopation levels) boosted activity in the left DLPFC, and enhanced executive functions (i.e., response times in a Stroop task), in particular for participants who felt positively affected and groovy (Fukuie et al, 2022).…”

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Lights on music cognition: a systematic and critical review of fNIRS applications and future perspectives

Curzel,

Tillmann,

Ferreri

2024

Preprint

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Research investigating the neural processes related to music perception and production constitutes a well-established field within the cognitive neurosciences. While most neuroimaging tools have limitations in studying the complexity of musical experiences, Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) represents a promising, relatively new tool for studying music processes in both laboratory and ecological settings, which is also suitable for both typical and pathological populations across development. Here we systematically review fNIRS studies on music cognition, highlighting prospects and potentialities. We also include an overview of fNIRS’ basic theory, together with a brief comparison to characteristics of other neuroimaging tools. Fifty-nine studies meeting inclusion criteria (i.e., using fNIRS with music as the primary stimulus) are presented across five thematic sections. Critical discussion of methodology leads to propose guidelines of good practices aiming for robust signal analyses and reproducibility. A continuously updated world map with elemental information from studies meeting the inclusion criteria aims to establish an organized, accessible, and updatable reference database, also facilitating future collaborations within the community. In conclusion, fNIRS shows potential for investigating cognitive processes in music, in particular in ecological contexts and with special populations, aligning with current research priorities in music cognition.

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Memory modulations through musical pleasure

Cited by 16 publications

References 44 publications

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults

Auditory and reward structures reflect the pleasure of musical expectancies during naturalistic listening

Lights on music cognition: a systematic and critical review of fNIRS applications and future perspectives

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