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

ABSTRACT: 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-induced visual imagery, and whether listeners exhibit consistency within themselves and with one another regarding their visual imagery content. We recruited an online sample (N = 353) who listened to three orchestral film music excerpts representing happy, tender, and fearful emotions. For each excerpt, listeners rated how much visual imagery they were experiencing and how vivid it was, their liking of and felt emotional intensity in response to the excerpt, and, finally, described the content of any visual imagery they may have been experiencing. Further, they completed items assessing a number of individual diffe

SUBMITTER: Hashim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10602345 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature