Affective music during episodic memory recollection modulates subsequent false emotional memory traces: an fMRI study.

Autor: Ren Y; School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. evraine7@gmail.com., Mehdizadeh SK; ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA., Leslie G; ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.; College of Music, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA., Brown T; School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience [Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci] 2024 Oct; Vol. 24 (5), pp. 912-930. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 02.
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-024-01200-0
Abstrakt: Music is a powerful medium that influences our emotions and memories. Neuroscience research has demonstrated music's ability to engage brain regions associated with emotion, reward, motivation, and autobiographical memory. While music's role in modulating emotions has been explored extensively, our study investigates whether music can alter the emotional content of memories. Building on the theory that memories can be updated upon retrieval, we tested whether introducing emotional music during memory recollection might introduce false emotional elements into the original memory trace. We developed a 3-day episodic memory task with separate encoding, recollection, and retrieval phases. Our primary hypothesis was that emotional music played during memory recollection would increase the likelihood of introducing novel emotional components into the original memory. Behavioral findings revealed two key outcomes: 1) participants exposed to music during memory recollection were more likely to incorporate novel emotional components congruent with the paired music valence, and 2) memories retrieved 1 day later exhibited a stronger emotional tone than the original memory, congruent with the valence of the music paired during the previous day's recollection. Furthermore, fMRI results revealed altered neural engagement during story recollection with music, including the amygdala, anterior hippocampus, and inferior parietal lobule. Enhanced connectivity between the amygdala and other brain regions, including the frontal and visual cortex, was observed during recollection with music, potentially contributing to more emotionally charged story reconstructions. These findings illuminate the interplay between music, emotion, and memory, offering insights into the consequences of infusing emotional music into memory recollection processes.
(© 2024. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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