University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2022 Sep 3;7(1):80. doi: 10.1186/s41235-022-00415-4.
Wakeful resting and listening to music are powerful means to modulate memory. How these activities affect memory when directly compared has not been tested so far. In two experiments, participants encoded and immediately recalled two word lists followed by either 6 min wakefully resting or 6 min listening to music. The results of Experiment 1 show that both post-encoding conditions have a similar effect on memory after 1 day. In Experiment 2, we explored the possibility that less concrete words, i.e. lower in imageability than in Experiment 1, are differently affected by the two post-encoding conditions. The results of Experiment 2 show that, when words are less concrete, more words are retained after 1 day when encoding is followed by wakeful resting rather than listening to music. These findings indicate that the effects of wakeful resting and listening to music on memory consolidation are moderated by the concreteness of the encoded material.
清醒休息和听音乐是调节记忆的有力手段。到目前为止，还没有测试过这两种活动直接比较时对记忆的影响。在两项实验中，参与者在编码后立即回忆两个单词列表，然后进行 6 分钟的清醒休息或 6 分钟的听音乐。实验 1 的结果表明，两种编码后条件在 1 天后对记忆的影响相似。在实验 2 中，我们探索了这样一种可能性，即不太具体的词，即比实验 1 中的图像性低的词，受到两种编码后条件的影响不同。实验 2 的结果表明，当单词不太具体时，与听音乐相比，在清醒休息后，一天后会记住更多的单词。这些发现表明，清醒休息和听音乐对记忆巩固的影响受到编码材料具体程度的调节。
