Music-Evoked Nostalgia Activates Default Mode and Reward Networks Across the Lifespan.

ABSTRACT: Nostalgia is a mixed emotion that is often evoked by music. Nostalgic music may induce temporary improvements in autobiographical memory in individuals with cognitive decline. However, the neural mechanism underlying music-evoked nostalgia and its associated memory improvements is unclear. With the ultimate goal of understanding how nostalgia-evoking music may help retrieve autobiographical memories in individuals with cognitive impairment, we first sought to understand the neural underpinnings of these processes in healthy younger and older adults. Methodological constraints, including the lack of personally tailored and experimentally controlled stimuli, have impeded our understanding of this mechanism. Here, we utilized an innovative machine-learning-based method to construct three cate

SUBMITTER: Hennessy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907061 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature