The Music Of Our Youth

Our sense of sight aids our memory using location, placement, direction and other visual and space elements, something known as Spatial memory.

We automatically start to build spatial memories from a very young age, recollecting the layouts of places and how they relate to the phy...

There are two possible ways music might be beneficial while working:

• It makes us feel good, therefore helping us to work through otherwise tedious tasks.
• It makes us smarter. The Mozart effect is a well-known example - that listening to a piano sonata composed by a genius ca...

The limits of our memory serve us well in many respects.

• Limited memories are useful trade-off to allow us to function and survive. We have thousands of memories, for example, of tables. If we recall all the events related to a table, it will create mass confusion w...