A researcher explores ‘musical daydreams’ and a song’s power to move us
About this episode
Elizabeth Margulis discusses her research on the emotional and cognitive effects of music as explored in her book.
Music has the power to conjure memory and emotion. In her new book, “Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams,” St. Louis native and professor Elizabeth Margulis investigates the source and implications of music’s impact on human cognition. The director of Princeton University’s Music Cognition Lab shares insights from her research, including the way that emotion and memory can trigger a person to “find yourself transported to some memory from your past, often quite vividly, or some fictional scene that you've never really experienced.”
People in this episode
Guest: Elizabeth Margulis
Topics covered
- music cognition
- memory
- emotion
- musical daydreams
- human experience
Keywords
- music
- cognition
- memory
- emotion
- daydreams
- Elizabeth Margulis
- Princeton University
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Princeton University
Books & works: Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams
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