Music and Science: A Study Shows Why We Don’t…

If there is something that can bring people together, it is music! There is a magic in the combination of rhythmic melodies and words that bring human beings closer together and are able to stay in your mind for a lifetime. However, understanding the reason behind this phenomenon can be a confusing process for some.

Science has been trying to find an explanation for such a complex question for a long time, and over time, some theories have gained strength. Here, Antena 1 gathers information about music and memory and tells you why we never forget the songs that define us.

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The emergence of music is something that gives way to many theories that science is trying to decipher. However, one of the things that is gaining strength is that the perception of music is born in the mind based on the chromaticity process by which mothers interact with their children and, thus, open the first channels of memory.

Several analyzes have indicated that children’s brains have the ability to respond to melody long before communication through words is established. Music somehow helps us form our first social bond, which is with our parents. This will be replicated in our other social connections in the future and of course with music.” Confirms Lucia Amorusopsychologist and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires.

Already the second Robert Zatori, musician, psychiatrist and founder of the Center for Brain, Music and Sound Research in Canada, the first thing that happens in the brain when we listen to music is that our pleasure center is activated and releases dopamine and usually the songs we memorize remain. In the frontal lobe, where the mental “disco” is located.

In addition to the process cited by Zator, there is the issue of redundancy. “What happens when you love a song so much? We repeat it. And not just for a while. For example, a song that stuck with us when we were 15 years old, we can hear it over and over for the rest of our lives. It ends up etched into our memory in an extraordinary way,” Claims.

Thus, memory stores music and vice versa. The greatest soundtracks are the ones that mark our lives and occupy our memories.

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