Generative Retrieval, Not Direct Retrieval, Supports the Retrieval Mechanism of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memory

We dissociated lyrics and melodies and combined the interference paradigm to examine the retrieval mechanism of music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) based on the Self-memory System Model. Results showed that the retrieval mechanism of MEAM might be a generative retrieval process relying on both lyrics and melodies.