One might thus conclude that a kind of positive transfer between musical performance and verbal memory functions takes place in other words, that the process of learning music improves the learning of verbal tasks (see Box Box1 1 for definitions of technical terms used in this article).Īlthough hearing music is closely associated with strong emotional feelings, and although music activates the entire limbic system, which is involved in processing of emotions and in controlling memory, most studies examining musical memory have not focused on the role of emotion in this form of memory. found that in musicians, compared with non-musicians, there is more gray matter in the part of the frontal cortex known to accommodate neural networks that are involved in several important working memory processes.
This might be one of the reasons why musicians tend to show a slightly superior verbal working memory – at least in tonal languages such as Chinese. Interestingly, there seems to be a high degree of overlap between working memory for musical stimuli and for verbal stimuli, as has been shown in recent working-memory experiments. This series-to-parallel transformation can be considered a mechanism of working memory, which temporarily stores auditory units and combines them into a single percept (such as a sound pattern, rhythm or melody). It is therefore necessary for the auditory system to integrate the sequentially ordered sounds into a coherent musical perception. Musical sounds, like all auditory signals, unfold over time. Collectively, these papers emphasize the enhancing role of music and emotion on memories in various contexts, which I shall focus on in this review. Several papers have looked at the role of music in memory formation and recall of autobiographical and episodic information, and a recent paper in BMC Neuroscience in particular gives new insights into the role of emotion in musical memory. But which musical pieces do we remember, and how is music related to our memory? This interesting question has as yet received surprisingly little attention in the scientific literature. Because of its near ubiquity, music has been identified as important in the construction of autobiographical memories and thus for making judgments about oneself and others. Whether it is for recreation, distraction or mood enhancement, a lot of people listen to music from early in the morning until late at night, especially since the invention of radio and recordings.
Music has a prominent role in the everyday life of many people.
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