Music is a window to your brain and memory

Music is a window to your brain and memory

Your brain functions like a book with chapter and sub chapters. At least sequential memory functions this way. Music memory and the brain. This article examines your memory and how it funtions in time. “Marking such episodes “is a crucial process that the brain undertakes without our conscious awareness throughout the day,” he said. “It divides the continuous stream of activity and perception into discrete events, and what we were probing was the mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this.”"

But, also makes another maybe more important point, That music is a window to your brain.”Why music?

“We used music for a couple of reasons,” Levitin said. “One is it’s fun. I mean, you want to give subjects something to do that’s going to hold their attention, of course.

“But the other reason is that music turned out to be a very fruitful window into studying the brain because music activates virtually every region in the brain that we’ve mapped so far.”"

Interesting article above. I use music to learn languages because its fun and it works.

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  1. September 20, 2007at 3:31 am

    [...] studies have been done on music and the brain. There is no need to rehash these.  Usually they talk about baroque music bringing you to an alpha [...]

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