ArticleImagination, cognition and personality2023
Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music.
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- Traffic jams: music and traffic noise interact to influence the vividness, sentiment, and spatiotemporal properties of directed mental imagery.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2026Article
- Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Acoustic features of instrumental movie soundtracks elicit distinct and mostly non-overlapping extra-musical meanings in the mind of the listener.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Understanding the prevalence of mental imagery, music, and their combined use among athletes and coaches.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The role of mood and arousal in the effect of background music on attentional state and performance during a sustained attention task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Imagination plays a key role in evidence-based, cognitive therapies, and recent research highlights that music - a perceptual stimulus imbued with affective and social meaning - can influence some aspects of imagination, such as vividness and emotional tone. However, little is known about music's capability to facilitate specific imagery themes that may be relevant for therapy. Here, we examine whether the quantity and quality (related to themes of affect, social dynamics, and confidence) of people's imagery is affected by the presence of task-irrelevant background music. One hundred participants imagined the continuation of a figure's journey while listening to different musical excerpts or silence. Written reports of imagined journeys underwent linguistic analysis to reveal the number of words belonging to the themes of interest. Bayesian Mixed Effects models revealed that music (
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