{"653051":{"#nid":"653051","#data":{"type":"event","title":"MS Defense by Sophia Mehdizadeh ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESophia Mehdizadeh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Advisor: Dr. Grace Leslie)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaster\u0026rsquo;s Thesis:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Using Music to Modulate Emotional Memory\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Tuesday, November 23\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E1pm\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;In person at Couch 104\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGrace Leslie (Assistant Professor, School of Music)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThackery Brown (Assistant Professor, School of Psychology \/ Neuroscience)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClaire Arthur (Assistant Professor, School of Music)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMusic is powerful in both affecting emotion and evoking memory.\u0026nbsp;This thesis\u0026nbsp;explores\u0026nbsp;if music might be able to modulate, or change, aspects of our emotional episodic memories.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe present a behavioral, human-subjects experiment\u0026nbsp;with a cognitive memory task targeting the reconsolidation mechanism.\u0026nbsp;Reactivation-induced reconsolidation allows for a previous experience to be relived and simultaneously reframed in memory.\u0026nbsp;Moreover, reconsolidation\u0026nbsp;of emotional, potentially maladaptive, autobiographical episodic memories\u0026nbsp;has become a research focus\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;the development of new affective psychotherapy protocols.\u0026nbsp;To this end, we propose that music may be\u0026nbsp;a useful tool in\u0026nbsp;driving\u0026nbsp;and reshaping\u0026nbsp;our memories and their associated emotions.\u0026nbsp;This thesis additionally focuses on the roles that affect and preference may play in these memory processes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough this research, we demonstrate music\u0026rsquo;s ability to serve as a powerful context for emotional autobiographical episodic memories. Overall, our results suggest that affective characteristics of the music\u0026nbsp;and the emotions induced in the listener significantly influence memory creation and retrieval, and that furthermore, the musical emotion may be equally as powerful as the musical structure in contextualizing and cueing memories. We also find support for individual differences and personal relevance of the musical context playing a determining role in these processes.\u0026nbsp;This thesis establishes a foundation for subsequent neuroimaging work and future clinical research directions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Using Music to Modulate Emotional Memory "}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2021-11-19 19:58:32","changed_gmt":"2021-11-19 19:58:32","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-11-23T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-11-23T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-11-23T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-11-23 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-11-23 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-11-23 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"111531","name":"ms defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}