When you listen,
to a certain song,
does it trigger a memory,
of the past,
that has gone
© 2022 Carol Natasha Diviney
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Kelly Jakubowski, a music psychologist at Durham University in England, has studied what makes an earworm, and says these catchy tunes share much in common with music-evoked autobiographical memories. “Both are everyday experiences, and both are involuntary memory processes,” Jakubowski said.14 Feb 2019.
According to scientists Schulkind, Hennis, Rubin and Professor Ira Hyman, a song triggers an emotion that matches the emotion felt at the time the event happened. In order to evoke memories, sensations need precise connections.26 Nov 2021.
This is because music makes human beings incredibly nostalgic. Neuroimaging has shown that songs stimulate many different areas of the brain, and give us a big hit of dopamine while they're at it. 2 Apr 2018.