It has long been known that the development of musical skills enhances memory and brain function. Learning to play a musical instrument is an excellent memory tool. According to researchers, music helps to strengthen memory as well as other areas of the brain, but still are not able to understand why. “Piano practicing fine tunes [...]
Musical memories have been known to remain in the brains of people who otherwise have lost their memory in other areas. Some researchers suspect musical memory is separate from long-term memory or short-term memory, and could even be a totally different section altogether. Powerful recollections of musical notes, and even long pieces, have been found [...]
Musical memory is the ability to remember music-related information, such as tones and pitch. Researchers have found that, although similar, musical memory is encoded differently from language, and may actually be a different type of memory altogether. MIT researchers stumbled upon what they called the brain’s “pitch center†by accident while studying the superior temporal [...]
