Department of Psychological Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States.
Department of Psychological Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States.
Conscious Cogn. 2022 Apr;100:103305. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103305. Epub 2022 Mar 9.
Music is a particularly salient autobiographical memory cue. Prior work has indicated that autobiographical memories evoked by music are more episodically rich than those evoked by other sensory cues. One explanation for this effect could be that music evokes autobiographical memories in a more involuntary manner than other cues. Here, we investigated the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories. Results indicated that, regardless of intentionality, music-evoked autobiographical memories were more episodically rich and contained more perceptual details than face-evoked memories. That is, even when directly comparing involuntary music-evoked memories to involuntary face-evoked memories, there was still a consistent difference in episodic richness between memories evoked by the two cue types. This suggests that it is not the involuntary nature of music-evoked memories alone that drives this difference, but that the difference in episodic richness between cue types seems at least partially to depend on other stimulus features.
音乐是一种特别突出的自传体记忆线索。先前的研究表明,音乐唤起的自传体记忆比其他感官线索唤起的记忆更具情节丰富性。这种效应的一种解释可能是,与其他线索相比,音乐以一种更无意识的方式唤起自传体记忆。在这里,我们研究了无意识检索在音乐唤起的自传体记忆中的作用。结果表明,无论意图如何,音乐唤起的自传体记忆在情节丰富性上都比面孔唤起的记忆更丰富,并且包含更多的感知细节。也就是说,即使将无意识的音乐唤起的记忆与无意识的面孔唤起的记忆直接进行比较,两种线索类型所唤起的记忆在情节丰富性上仍然存在一致的差异。这表明,驱动这种差异的不仅仅是音乐唤起的记忆的无意识性质,而且记忆类型之间在情节丰富性上的差异至少部分取决于其他刺激特征。