The Behavioural and Neural Bases of Music-Evoked Visual Mental Imagery
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Hashim, Sarah. 2024. The Behavioural and Neural Bases of Music-Evoked Visual Mental Imagery. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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Visual mental imagery, the experience of “seeing” in the mind’s eye in the absence of the corresponding retinal input, is a ubiquitous experience that holds artistic, clinical, and educational implications. The acoustic and associative features of music make it an effective trigger of visual imagery. However, while visual imagery has been extensively explored across several disciplines, there is a lack of basic knowledge and methodological breadth in investigations of music-evoked visual imagery. Consequently, there is much to be understood regarding its phenomenological features, its neural characteristics, and its practical impact. This thesis seeks to address these outstanding gaps across five empirical investigations. In the first experiment, qualitative and quantitative techniques are used to examine the content and the across- and within-person consistency of music-evoked visual imagery. Secondly, electroencephalography (EEG) was used to explore the neural substrates of static and dynamic forms of music-evoked visual imagery. Thirdly, EEG was used again to understand and compare the neuro-oscillatory characteristics of spontaneously- and deliberately-occurring visual imagery during extended music listening. Next, using self-reports, physiology, and EEG, visual imagery was assessed as a potential mechanism for stress reduction following a multicomponent stress-induction task. In the final experiment, the thesis explored whether aphantasics, those with little-to-no visual imagery ability, differ in their emotional, functional, and everyday uses of music compared to control listeners. By combining a variety of measurement and analytical techniques, this thesis is able to emphasise the diverse, idiosyncratic, and spontaneous nature of music-evoked visual imagery, reveal its neural characteristics, and demonstrate its ability to modulate affect.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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music listening, visual imagery, mental imagery, EEG, neural correlates, thematic analysis, consistency, imagination, music-induced emotions, emotion induction, aesthetic appeal, cross-modal associations, intentionality, stress, aphantasia |
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31 October 2024 |
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37881 |
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22 Nov 2024 11:18 |
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22 Nov 2024 11:27 |
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