Cognition, Behavior, and Memory
Author: Juan ignacio Bertoli | email: juanibertoli@gmail.com
Juan ignacio Bertoli 1°, Jessica Sanchez Beisel 1°, Matias Serafini 1°, Maria del Rosario Quian 2°, Ignacio Ferrelli 2°, Sabrina Monsalvo 2°, JorgeMario Andreau 1°
1° Instituto de investigación de la Facultad de Psicología y Psicopedagogía de la Universidad del Salvador.
2° Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
The hemispheric asymmetry model for encoding/retrieval (HERA), (Cabeza et al., 2003; Habib et al., 2003; Nyberg et al., 1996; Tulving et al., 1994) proposes a lateralization during memory process. With a preferential activity of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in the left hemisphere during encoding and preferential activity of the PFC in the right hemisphere during retrieval. It has been shown that listening to music generates a greater activation of the right hemisphere (Alluri et al., 2013; Bever & Chiarello, 2009; Ono et al., 2011; Santosa et al., 2014). Therefore, an indirect method to evaluate lateralization consists of generating a competition for the resources on the hemisphere involved in the memory process (Friedman & Polson, 1981; Funahashi, 2017). The aim of this study is to validate a new procedure to indirectly study hemispheric activation. We hypothesize that: Listening to music during retrieval of verbal stimuli would lead to a decrease in performance compared to listening to music only at encoding, since in the first case the right hemisphere would be engaged in both tasks.