This article argues that the capacity of music to reliably cue both autobiographical memories and fictional imaginings can be leveraged to better understand the relationship and interdependence between memory and imagination more generally. The multiple levels involved in musical engagement provide a rich forum for investigating how emotional, semantic, and contextual associations with musical cues influence both memories and imaginings. Moreover, musical excerpts are extended in time and can influence the trajectory of a memory or imagining dynamically as it develops, allowing for a more precise manipulation of the implied semantic space. Because music’s uses and contextual associations are culturally constrained, and culture can be shared, autobiographical memories and fictional imaginings cued by music can show surprising similarities among individuals from the same culture. This article surveys the research on music-evoked autobiographical memories and music-evoked fictional imaginings, proposing a framework for bringing these separate strands of work together to shed light on larger questions about shared underlying mechanisms.

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音乐、记忆和想象力

本文认为，可以利用音乐可靠地暗示自传记忆和虚构想象的能力来更好地理解记忆和想象之间的关系和相互依赖。音乐参与涉及的多个层面为研究音乐线索的情感、语义和语境关联如何影响记忆和想象提供了丰富的论坛。此外，音乐摘录会随着时间的推移而延长，并且可以随着记忆的发展而动态地影响记忆或想象的轨迹，从而可以更精确地操纵隐含的语义空间。由于音乐的用途和语境关联受到文化的限制，并且文化可以共享，因此音乐所暗示的自传记忆和虚构想象可以在来自同一文化的个体之间表现出惊人的相似性。本文调查了关于音乐诱发的自传体记忆和音乐诱发的虚构想象的研究，提出了一个框架，将这些不同的工作结合在一起，以阐明有关共享的潜在机制的更大问题。