Elizabeth Margulis
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267 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Jun
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Exactly.
Bringing you back.
Exactly.
But, you know, the thing about musical cues in these cases, though, is they tend to trigger more of a reliving full of these kind of sensory details than just a simple recollection.
But there are also cases where it's a song you've never heard before and it transports you to some prior phase of your life.
And that can't be explainable in quite the same way.
There are also cases where you hear music and you get lost in some kind of imagining of something that never really happened to you or is just entirely fantastical and couldn't really happen to you.
And in those cases, the mechanism is a little different.
Yes.
So there's a known reminiscence bump for music from your teenage years where you tend to like that music more even later in life and have more vivid personal memories associated with it.
But there's also a secondary reminiscence bump for music from your parents' teenage years where
And what we think is going on there is that when you are a tiny person and don't have control over what's playing on the kitchen radio, your parents often have the music from their teenage years queued up.
What about genres?
I mean, do some genres hit people harder?
Yeah, we've seen this kind of daydreaming happen across all the genres we've studied, and we've tried to study a lot of them.
We do find that the more we're looking at kind of instrumental music that doesn't have lyrics, the more kind of pronounced we get these kinds of fantastical imaginings, especially.
We've been able to take a look because now that we've done all this behavioral research and we know for certain songs that people won't have heard before we put them in the scanner, but we've played them for other people outside the scanner and we know what they're likely to imagine that
We can now bring them in to get an MRI scan and play them either this song or play them a recording of someone speaking the story we know that they're likely to imagine and then compare their brain activity across these two conditions.
And what do you see?
Using that, we see the emergence of these higher order areas, like the default mode network, that carry this kind of meaning of this imagined story across these sensory modalities.
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