Visual sequence encoding is modulated by music schematic structure and familiarity.

ABSTRACT: Music is omnipresent in daily life and may interact with critical cognitive processes including memory. Despite music's presence during diverse daily activities including studying, commuting, or working, existing literature has yielded mixed results as to whether music improves or impairs memory for information experienced in parallel. To elucidate how music memory and its predictive structure modulate the encoding of novel information, we developed a cross-modal sequence learning task during which participants acquired sequences of abstract shapes accompanied with paired music. Our goal was to investigate whether familiar and structurally regular music could provide a "temporal schema" (rooted in the organized and hierarchical structure of music) to enhance the acquisition of parallel tem

SUBMITTER: Ren Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11305557 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature