I spoke with @nautil.us about music, the brain, and our curious propensity to hear stories in sound nautil.us/how-music-sp...
How Music Sparks Imagination - Nautilus
Songs are closely linked to narrative and language
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When people listen to music, they often imagine remarkably similar stories. A study in Nature Communications shows these shared imaginings selectively rely on stimulus-specific patterns in a set of modality-general brain regions. go.nature.com/4gKKw0l #Neuroskyence 🧪
How does the brain make meaning when listening to wordless music? 🧵 on our new paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Music evokes shared neural representations of imagined narratives across sensory modalities - Nature Communications
When people listen to music, they often imagine remarkably similar stories. The authors show these shared imaginings selectively rely on stimulus-specific patterns in a set of modality-general brain r...
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Join us in Durham on 14 September for this free workshop on music and imagination, featuring @margulisa.bsky.social and lots of other brilliant speakers! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-h...
Workshop: How Does Music Listening Shape Inner Experience?
Interdisciplinary presentations and discussions on capturing inner experience during music listening and other forms of arts engagement
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So thrilled by this thoughtful review from the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Transported’ Review: Lost in a Musical Daydream
We store memories as a jumble of sensory fragments. Music can snap the pieces together and conjure up old feelings.
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Looking forward to talking with @margulisa.bsky.social about her new book next Monday at Left Bank Books! left-bank.com/event/2026-0...
Elizabeth Margulis - Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams
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Brilliant study design from the amazing @jayneuro.bsky.social
Jamal A. Williams@jayneuro.bsky.social · last yr.Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...