Abstract
ABSTRACT This study examined effects of cognitive load on involuntary musical imagery (INMI), and particularly investigated whether INMI was accompanied by lyrics when a linguistic task was simultaneously performed. In the experiment, participants listened to a familiar lyrical song, and repeatedly engaged in a linguistic task or non-linguistic task for 30 s and had a break for 30 s between each trial. After completing all trials, they estimated the percentage of INMI time during the experiment. The results showed that INMI occurred more frequently during the rest periods than during the task periods, and the temporal percentage of INMI with lyrics was lower in the linguistic task than in the non-linguistic task. These results suggest that INMI tends to occur in low-attention states, and that the linguistic task interfered with the verbal information in INMI. However, due to the small sample size, these suggestions should be considered preliminary to further studies.
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