Dr Diana Omigie (Goldsmiths): Curious Sounds: How music hijacks and shapes our everyday thoughts. School of Psychology and Neuroscience Friday seminar series

Curious Sounds: How music hijacks and shapes our everyday thoughts.
Old Library, 28th of March at 1pm, hosted by Professor Ines Jentzsch

Abstract:
Music is a ubiquitous stimulus that can capture and sustain our attention, trigger autobiographical memories, and invoke vivid images in our mind's eye. As such the study of music listening offers a valuable window into key processes of relevance to a variety of cognitive domains. In this talk I will present three lines of research that I and members of my lab have focused on in recent years. I will discuss intracranial EEG and behavioural work that provides insights into why, when and how music captures and maintains our attention. I will present what we are finding out about the neuro-oscillatory correlates and consequences of music-induced imagery. Finally, I will show what VR and other more naturalistic paradigms are telling us about how music influences episodic memory encoding and autobiographical memory retrieval. I will end the talk by mentioning directions for future research, arguing that the study of music not only throws light on attentional engagement, spontaneous cognition and human memory, but also reveals interesting links between all three.

Key Papers:
Hashim, S., Küssner, M. B., Weinreich, A., & Omigie, D. (2024). The neuro-oscillatory profiles of static and dynamic music-induced visual imagery. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 199, 112309.
Murphy, E., North, E., Nawaz, S., & Omigie, D. (2023). The influence of music liking on episodic memory for rich spatiotemporal contexts. Memory (Hove, England), 31(5), 589-604.
Omigie, D., & Ricci, J. (2023). Accounting for expressions of curiosity and enjoyment during music listening. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 17(2), 225-241.
Omigie, D., & Mencke, I. (2024). A model of time-varying music engagement. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1895), 20220421.