Music evokes fewer but more positive autobiographical memories than emotionally matched sound and word cues.

Jakubowski, Kelly; Eerola, Tuomas

doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.09.002

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“…Similarly, using environmental sounds as memory cues, Ernst and colleagues (2021) have recently shown that auditory cues were associated with an over-representation of repetitive events among the memories evoked by the five senses. Jakubowski and Eerola (2022) also demonstrated that music elicited fewer memories in comparison to environmental sound cues and word cues and that these memories were rated as less unique than word-cued memories. According to the model of Conway (Conway et al, 2019;Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000), music would be more potent to trigger autobiographical memories related to the conceptual self, that cover a period of life or repeated events, than episodic autobiographical memories, that involve precise and time-limited episodes of life.…”

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“…Some studies suggested that other stimuli with strong ecological validity, such as music and faces, also demonstrate specificities for evoking episodic memory. Music-evoked autobiographical memories are reported to be consistently associated with strong emotions (Jakubowski & Eerola, 2022;Janata et al, 2007;Schulkind et al, 1999) and are also suggested to be very vivid (Belfi et al, 2016;Jakubowski et al, 2021). Interestingly, as for odours, the recognition performance of unfamiliar music is weaker than that of visual objects (Cohen et al, 2009(Cohen et al, , 2011Deffler & Halpern, 2011) and a recent study suggests that music elicited fewer memories in comparison to environmental sound and word cues (Jakubowski & Eerola, 2022).…”

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“…Music-evoked autobiographical memories are reported to be consistently associated with strong emotions (Jakubowski & Eerola, 2022;Janata et al, 2007;Schulkind et al, 1999) and are also suggested to be very vivid (Belfi et al, 2016;Jakubowski et al, 2021). Interestingly, as for odours, the recognition performance of unfamiliar music is weaker than that of visual objects (Cohen et al, 2009(Cohen et al, , 2011Deffler & Halpern, 2011) and a recent study suggests that music elicited fewer memories in comparison to environmental sound and word cues (Jakubowski & Eerola, 2022). Faces are more likely than voices to evoke both episodic and semantic information about an individual, even when faces are blurred to limit recognition (for an overview, see Brédart and Barsics, 2012).…”

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Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality: Comparing odours, music and faces using virtual reality

Rey¹,

Désoche²,

Saive³

et al. 2022

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Most everyday experiences are multisensory, and all senses can trigger the conscious re-experience of unique personal events from the past embedded in their specific spatio-temporal context. Yet, little is known about how a cue’s sensory modality influences episodic memory retrieval, and which step of this process is impacted. This study investigated recognition and episodic memory across olfactory, auditory and visual sensory modalities in a laboratory-ecological task using a non-immersive virtual reality device presenting a three-room house where boxes delivered odours, musical pieces and pictures of face. At encoding, participants freely, actively and non-explicitly explored unique and rich episodes. At retrieval, participants were presented with modality-specific memory cues and were told to 1) recognize encoded cues among distractors and, 2) go to the room and select the box in which they encountered them at encoding. Memory performance and response times consistently revealed that music and faces outperformed odours in recognition memory, but that odours and faces outperformed music in evoking episodic context retrieval. Interestingly, correct recognition of music and faces was accompanied by more profound inspirations than was correct rejection of music and faces. By directly comparing memory performance across sensory modalities, our study provides further knowledge about specificities of olfactory memory and demonstrated that despite limited recognition, odours are powerful cues to evoke specific episodic memory retrieval.

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Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality: Comparing odours, music and faces using virtual reality

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Saive³

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“…A large number of studies have improved the AMT paradigm. Cues are no longer limited to words but range from verbal cues, such as words, to non-verbal cues, such as music [ 38 ], odor [ 39 ], and images [ 40 ]. Studies have approved the effectiveness of pictures as cues for autobiographical memory.…”

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Dorsolateral Prefrontal Activation in Emotional Autobiographical Task in Depressed and Anxious College Students: An fNIRS Study

Zhang

Guo

et al. 2022

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Objective: The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is strongly associated with mood symptoms. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) technology to explore the features of brain neural activity in the dlPFC of anxious and depressed college students, during an emotional autobiographical memory task, and to understand the differences in brain cognitive mechanisms caused by anxiety and depression. Methods: A simple random sampling method was used to test 440 college students at a university with a healthy control group (HC, 220 participants), a pure depression group (PD, 92 participants), and a pure anxiety group (PA, 128 participants). The average oxyhemoglobin in the dlPFC of the subjects during the emotional autobiographical memory task was collected by a 53-channel functional near-infrared spectroscopy imaging device. Results: The activation of the left dlPFC (ch13) in the pure depression group was significantly higher than in the pure anxiety group. The activation of the right dlPFC (ch48) was significantly higher under positive emotions than under negative emotions. The interaction between emotion valence and group was marginally significant, and the activation of the right dlPFC (ch41) in the pure depression group was significantly higher under positive emotion than in negative emotion. The activation of the pure depression group under positive emotions was significantly higher than that of the pure anxiety group. In comparison, the activation of the pure depression group under negative emotions was significantly lower than that of the healthy control group. The results of correlation analysis showed that the activation of the left dlPFC (ch13) was significantly negatively correlated with anxiety in positive emotions, but the activation of the right dlPFC (ch34, ch42) was significantly positively correlated with anxiety in positive and negative emotions. Conclusions: The right dlPFC was insensitive to positive emotions in college students with high-anxiety symptoms, whereas this region was insensitive to negative emotions in college students with high depressive symptoms, which might be one of the critical differences in the cognitive mechanisms of anxiety and depression. Furthermore, left and right dlPFC activation correlated differently with anxiety. The higher the anxiety level, the lower the activation on the left side, and the higher the activation on the right side. The results suggested that anxiety might reduce the function of the left dlPFC.

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“…2D). Although recent work has investigated both involuntary and voluntary music-evoked autobiographical memories, in most studies participants were instructed to retrieve a memory in response to each music cue (Belfi et al, , 2022Sheldon et al, 2020;Sheldon & Donahue, 2017) or describe memories that came to mind during music exposure (Baird et al, 2018;Belfi et al, 2016;El Haj, Fasotti, et al, 2012;Jakubowski & Eerola, 2021). Therefore, even voluntary (as opposed to memory spontaneously evoked by music) retrieval in most prior studies consisted of responses directly to the music, rather than recall of separate memories.…”

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

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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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Music evokes fewer but more positive autobiographical memories than emotionally matched sound and word cues.

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality: Comparing odours, music and faces using virtual reality

Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality: Comparing odours, music and faces using virtual reality

Dorsolateral Prefrontal Activation in Emotional Autobiographical Task in Depressed and Anxious College Students: An fNIRS Study

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

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