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The scientific study of music's deep correlation with autobiographical memories gained prominence in the early 2000s, when the term “music-evoked autobiographical memory” was coined by cognitive neuroscientist Petr Janata and colleagues, who first described the phenomenon in healthy undergraduate students.
Emerging evidence suggests that music is a strong cue for autobiographical memories. Compared to face-evoked, food-evoked, and television-evoked cues, music-evoked autobiographical memory cues were found to be more salient through measures including episodic richness, personal significance, and recall.
Research suggests we listen to the same songs repeatedly because of musical nostalgia. One major study, published in the journal Memory & Cognition, found that music enables the mind to evoke memories of the past, known as music-evoked autobiographical memories. [85]
Retrieval of episodic musical memory, which includes music-evoked autobiographical memory, resulted in activation bilaterally in the middle and superior frontal gyri and the precuneus. Although bilateral activation was found there was dominance in the right hemisphere. This research suggests independence of episodic and semantic musical memory.
Autographical memories are facilitated by aids including verbal, face-evoked, picture-evoked, odour-evoked, and music-evoked autobiographical memory cues. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Though similar to episodic memory, it differs in that it contains only those experiences which directly pertain to the individual, from across their lifespan.
Autobiographical elaboration is known to benefit memory by creating links between the processed stimuli, and the self, for example, deciding whether a word would describe the personal self. Memory formed through autobiographical elaboration is enhanced as compared to items processed for meaning, but not in relation to the self. [37] [38]
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Involuntary memory, also known as involuntary explicit memory, involuntary conscious memory, involuntary aware memory, madeleine moment, mind pops [1] and most commonly, involuntary autobiographical memory, is a sub-component of memory that occurs when cues encountered in everyday life evoke recollections of the past without conscious effort ...