How Music Sparks Imagination
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A study led by Princeton's Music Cognition Lab researcher Elizabeth Margulis found that when people listen to instrumental music, brain regions involved in mind wandering and sensory processing light up both during listening and when participants report the stories they imagined, published in Nature Communications, suggesting music has more narrative power than previously realized.
The study involved only 20 subjects listening to a single piece of music; findings suggest correlation between music and imagination but do not prove causation.
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