Music Memories Stored In Different Part of Brain Than Other Memories 94
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have long believed that the ability to learn and appreciate music was stored in a different part of the brain than other types of memories. Now, researchers in Berlin think that they have concluded that theory. Dr. Christoph J. Ploner, Carson Finke, and Nazli Esfahani at the Department of Neurology at the Virchow campus in Berlin, Germany have examined a man who has lost all of his memories but has retained his ability to remember and learn songs."
Re:sigh (Score:4, Insightful)
If you understood why that was then maybe you wouldn't sigh.
We pretty much rely on people with borked bits of grey matter for pretty much everything we know about the brain. That is to say, to understand the whole we have to understand how all the parts work together, which means looking at the parts in isolation, which means looking at people who have parts of their brain that are swithced off.
Unless you're advocating labotomising a load of people with the hopes of raising the statistical significance...
Text (Score:4, Insightful)
Does this mean you store text in non-song form in a different location than text in song-form?
Since that looks like a binary decision: how much melody is required for the sudden switch from the one storage location to the other?
Re:Might be something (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if you could prepare yourself for Alzheimers by writing and learning songs about all your important memories
Re:Might be something (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if you could prepare yourself for Alzheimers by writing and learning songs about all your important memories
I wonder if you could prepare yourself for Alzheimers by writing and learning songs about all your important memories
That reminds me of what the north American Indians had done. I would imagine there are songs of ancient time passed along due to this type of memory being the most protected.
Makes you wonder if there is something to the notion of singing angel references in the bible and why people sing in churches.
I have always found it so fascinating at how prevalent music is in our culture and profound an impact music has made on our history and makes up "who we are". Just about every kid in America is defined by a band or song or type of music. Just about every era is depicted by a musical theme.
It is almost completely correlated of advancements in music relate to advancements in technology.
Interesting.