Fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations during music-evoked autobiographical memories in neurotypical older adults
Teresa Lesiuk, Kaitlyn Dillon, Giulia Ripani, Ioannis Iliadis, Gabriel Perez, Bonnie Levin, Xiaoyan Sun, Roger McIntosh · 2025
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Description
A familiar song can pull a whole scene from a person's past into mind with little effort, a gift that may help aging memory. Teresa Lesiuk and co-authors watch the brain during that pull in a paper whose head record gives 2024. Healthy older adults listened to songs they knew and songs they did not while scanners read slow waves of brain activity.
Known songs lit a memory-linked region beside the hippocampus more than unknown songs did. The gap held after the team allowed for age and for shrinkage of gray matter in that region. Word analysis of the memories themselves added texture to the scans. The authors note the open question: whether the same brain state can be reached by people with early memory disease, where such a tool would matter most.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Teresa Lesiuk, Kaitlyn Dillon, Giulia Ripani, Ioannis Iliadis, Gabriel Perez, Bonnie Levin, Xiaoyan Sun, Roger McIntosh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |