Music player. A catchy hit catches your attention. A voice is shouting”you let me fall“and your brain, in milliseconds,”but it took me!”. Next song. starts with “what should i do for you to come back with me” and instinctively your answer “let’s leave the past behind“. Another one. If it says music”what happened what happened“You know the only correct answer is to scream at the top of your lungs.”between you and meThese are the lines that ‘Gasoline Belt’ augmented with the rhythms of reggaeton and Daddy Yankee. we engraved in our brains. But how is it possible for us to remember each of these statements one by one and then forget the much more practical data? Science, of course, has an answer.
don’t need too many excuses to justify why do we know each other songs It’s the things that mark our lives, but if we try to find explanations for how our brains work, that’s fine. pull the rope of psychology and neuroscience. So pay attention to all units, because the first step in entering this discussion is to understand how memory works and how memory is stored.
So let’s start from the beginning. as described by neuropsychologists Hilde and Ylva Øtsby In the ‘Book of Memory’ (Ariel), “memories arise from a complex network of brain interactions in which what our senses capture is recorded”. Every time we are exposed to a stimulus such as a song, we a set of neural connections. Some are temporary, while others remain registered. But what does one thing or the other depend on?
There are two main reasons why some explain why some others. links are stored in our gray matter. Firstly repeat. The more we hear (and repeat) the words of a song, the easier it is to remember it (so repeating a fact over and over, for example, helps us memorize it for the exam). The second reason is emotion. All emotional memory it’s more likely to stick in your brain (yes, that’s why that embarrassing memory of high school still haunts you at night).
But there is a third element that helps us understand why reggaeton chants remain written in our brains: context where we experience these stimuli. As Øtsby neuropsychologists explain, when we recover a memory from our memory, for example, with the lyrics of the song, we are not just saving the ’empty file’. We also remember all the experiences and emotions associated with this memory. like night out, a funny anecdote with friends or a ‘totally drink and twerk to the end’ moment. Is there anything more memorable than that?