Music and Mental Imagery

Mats B. Küssner is Lecturer in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Liila Taruffi is Lecturer in Music Psychology at Durham University, UK. She has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, neuroscience, and aesthetics. Georgia A. Floridou is a psychologist, researcher, and educator operating at the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience. She is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Foreword by Andrea R. Halpern

Introduction and Overview

Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi, and Georgia A. Floridou

PART I: Modalities of Mental Imagery






The Chronicles of Musical Imagery as it Occurs Before, During, and After Music
Georgia A. Floridou




Visual Mental Imagery, Music, and Emotion: From Academic Discourse to Clinical Applications
Liila Taruffi and Mats B. Küssner




Intermittent Motor Control in Volitional Musical Imagery
Rolf Inge Godøy




Kinaesthetic Musical Imagery Underlying Music Cognition
Jin Hyun Kim




Music and Multimodal Mental Imagery
Bence Nanay

PART II: Measurement




Music-Evoked Imagery and Imagery for Music: Subjective and Behavioural Measures
Rebecca W. Gelding, Robina A. Day, and William Forde Thompson




Self-Report Measures in the Study of Musical Imagery
Timothy L. Hubbard




Neuroscience Measures of Music and Mental Imagery
Amy M. Belfi




Deep Neural Networks and Auditory Imagery
André Ofner and Sebastian Stober




Musical Imagery from a Cross-Cultural Methodological Perspective
George Athanasopoulos

PART III: Mental Imagery and Related States of Consciousness




Mental Imagery in Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories
Kelly Jakubowski




What is Mind-Wandering?
Mahiko Konishi




Distraction or Panic?
Anthony Gritten




Musical Daydreaming and Kinds of Consciousness
Ruth Herbert




Sound-Colour Synaesthesia and Music-Induced Visual Mental Imagery: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Mats B. Küssner and Konstantina Orlandatou




Music-Evoked Imagery in an Absorbed State of Mind: A Bayesian Network Approach
Thijs Vroegh




Recumbent Journeys Into Sound – Music, Imagery, and Altering States of Consciousness
Jörg Fachner

Part IV: Applied Mental Imagery




Imagery and Movement in Music-Based Rehabilitation and Music Pedagogy
Rebecca S. Schaefer




Applied Mental Imagery and Music Performance Anxiety
Katherine K. Finch and Jonathan M. Oakman




In Search of a Story: Guided Imagery and Music Therapy
Helena Dukić




The Image Behind the Sound: Visual Imagery in Music Performance
Graziana Presicce




Multimodal Perception in Selected Visually Impaired Pianists: Towards A Conceptual Framework
Anri Herbst and Silvia van Zyl




"Don’t Sing it With the Face of a Dead Fish!" Can Verbalised Imagery Stimulate a Vocal Response in Choral Rehearsals?
Mary T. Black

Part V: Outlook




Future Perspectives and Challenges

Tuomas Eerola