Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, J. Devin McAuley

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Abstract

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, depending on culture, as can the immediate perceptual environment, imaginings that might appear idiosyncratic or entirely subjective can in fact be broadly shared.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)829-831
Number of pages3
JournalTrends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume26
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Keywords

  • events
  • imagination
  • music
  • narrative
  • spontaneous thought

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