[HTML][HTML] The psychological basis of music appreciation: Structure, self, source.

WF Thompson, NJ Bullot, EH Margulis - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Research has investigated psychological processes in an attempt to explain how and why
people appreciate music. Three programs of research have shed light on these processes …

Dynamic emotional states shape the episodic structure of memory

M McClay, ME Sachs, D Clewett - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Human emotions fluctuate over time. However, it is unclear how these shifting emotional
states influence the organization of episodic memory. Here, we examine how emotion …

Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

V Putkinen, X Zhou, X Gan, L Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Emotions, bodily sensations and movement are integral parts of musical experiences. Yet, it
remains unknown i) whether emotional connotations and structural features of music elicit …

Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination

EH Margulis, JD McAuley - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Recent work using music highlights how past experiences and the immediate perceptual
environment can shape imagination. Given that aspects of past experiences can be shared …

Connecting tourists to musical destinations: The role of musical geographical imagination and aesthetic responses in music tourism

M Zhuang, H Zhang, P Li, C Shen, X Xiao, J Zhang - Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
While the value of music in connecting tourists to destinations is recognized, its mechanism
remains unclear. This study adopts aesthetic responses to explore how musical …

Music listening evokes story-like visual imagery with both idiosyncratic and shared content

S Hashim, L Stewart, MB Küssner, D Omigie - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
There is growing evidence that music can induce a wide range of visual imagery. To date,
however, there have been few thorough investigations into the specific content of music …

Stories in action

J Walsh, N Vaida, A Coman… - … Science in the Public …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Stories have played a central role in human social and political life for thousands of years.
Despite their ubiquity in culture and custom, however, they feature only peripherally in …

Prokofiev was (almost) right: A cross-cultural investigation of auditory-conceptual associations in Peter and the Wolf

N Di Stefano, A Ansani, A Schiavio… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Over recent decades, studies investigating cross-modal correspondences have documented
the existence of a wide range of consistent cross-modal associations between simple …

When did that happen? The dynamic unfolding of perceived musical narrative

EH Margulis, J Williams, R Simchy-Gross, JD McAuley - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
People readily imagine narratives in response to instrumental music. Although previous
work has established that these narratives show broad intersubjectivity, it remains unclear …

Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.

P Loui, BM Kubit, Y Ou, EH Margulis - Psychology of Aesthetics …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Human imagination is generative and creative yet deeply rooted in culture and familiarity.
Recent studies have quantified the effects of culture on stories that are imagined during …