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Narratives imagined in response to instrumental music reveal culture-bounded intersubjectivity
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Significance: Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? This research analyzes the similarity of responses from 622 participants in three locations on a highly unconstrained task: free-response descriptions of the stories they imagined while listening to instrumental music. Strikingly, participants in two separate locations that share an overarching culture imagine highly similar narratives to individual excerpts. But these similarity patterns do not extend to narratives imagined by participants in a third location with a distinct culture. This work shows that music—often considered an “abstract stimulus”—can trigger shared stories in listeners’ minds but that this intersubjectivity depends on a shared underlying culture.
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Participants from the same culture produced more similar narratives than participants from different cultures.
“A clear pattern emerged: Participants from the same culture (Arkansas and Michigan) produced more similar narratives than participants from different cultures (Arkansas and Dimen; Michigan and Dimen).”
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- Authors
- Margulis, E. H., Wong, P. C. M., Turnbull, C., Kubit, B. M., & McAuley, J. D.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Michigan State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Margulis, Elizabeth H.
- McAuley, J. Devin
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2022-01-21
- Volume
- 119
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC8795501
- OpenAlex
- W4206917237
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7
- FWCI
- 10.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1734025, 1734063)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Keywords
- music semantics, instrumental music, intersubjectivity, music as universal language, cross-cultural comparison
- MeSH terms
- Auditory Perception, Culture, Humans, Imagination, Music, Semantics, Narration
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