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How We Store Musical Memories In Our Brain

How We Store Musical Memories In Our Brain

There are 2competing theories.

  • The constructivist theory argues that the brain stores relational information about objects and ideas, rather than explicit information about them. Thus, upon retrieval, we have to construct a memory representation out of these relations (e.g. pitch relations of a melody).
  • The competing theory is known as the record-keeping theory - most of our experiences are preserved accurately and with near-perfect fidelity.

Ample evidence exists for both, which eventually led researchers to develop a new theory that is capable of incorporating both of its predecessors.

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Each Song You Hear Leaves An Imprint In Your Brain

Each Song You Hear Leaves An Imprint In Your Brain

While many areas of the brain light up simultaneously during music, such as your subcortical structures, auditory cortices, the hippocampus, and others, something unique happens the very first time you hear any song: a certain set of neurons fires together, and a unique, abstract, generalized imp...

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DANIEL J. LEVITIN

“Headphones also made the music more personal for me; it was suddenly coming from inside my head, not out there in the world."

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Mirror Neurons

Mirror Neurons

Our brains have mirror neurons, which are neurons that fire both when performing an action and when observing someone else performing that action.

Scientists have tested this as a theory and proved that, for example, when people listened to or watched someone eat an apple, ...

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Musical Activity Is Widely Distributed Across The Brain

Musical Activity Is Widely Distributed Across The Brain

Neuroanatomically, music is being processed in parallel by many different regions.

  • If we listen to Bach, our hair cells in the cochlea parse the incoming sound into its different frequency bands.
  • Then, electrical signals are sent to the primary auditory cortex to...

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Music and Evolution

Music and Evolution

A small minority of scientists argue that music only serves hedonic purposes – a byproduct of language and is only a pastime for us to feel pleasure. That would mean that if you eliminated all music from the world, life would just go on as if nothing happened.

The m...

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Music Is All About Expectations

Music Is All About Expectations

How much you like a song depends mostly on how well you can predict what comes next. Great musicians play with your brain and expectations in the way that they get you to expect something, and then surprise you, before taking you back to comfortable terrain.

A great song su...

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DANIEL J. LEVITIN

“The common neural mechanisms that underlie perception of music and memory for music help to explain how it is that songs get stuck in our heads. Scientists call these ear worms, from the German Ohrwurm, or simply the stuck song syndrome.”

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“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "...

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“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”

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