“Lyrics… the source of memory”?

Interesting news item in Money Plans, of all places. Researchers at Dartmouth College have been playing around, seeing which parts of the brain are used when people listen to music. They monitored brain activity as people listened to music, and then checked which parts of the brain were used to fill in the gaps when they blanked out extracts. The conclusion is that “lyrics might be the focus of the memory”. See the full story on Money Plans.

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