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Religious celebrations are joyous occasions; the whole family gets together, there’s plenty of delicious food (and sweets!), there’s laughter and singing -maybe even dancing ? For many of us, religious celebrations are full of happy memories. Listening to music or singing songs that are associated with religious celebrations can bring back that warm and fuzzy feeling, … Read more

Every place has its own musical identity, influenced by the local culture, history, and people.  Think about home. Are there any songs that come to mind?Maybe it’s folk songs about working in shipyards, or ditties about living in the countryside. It could even be a lullaby about local legends, or tunes celebrating local holidays.  We … Read more

Research shows that we tend to favour the songs we carry with us from our Memory Bump. They evoke the strongest reactions in us, but they’re not the only ones to have such an effect. We also tend to favour songs from our parents’ and grandparents’ Memory Bumps, a phenomenon known as the ‘Cascading Memory … Read more

We all tend to lay down more memories between the ages of 10 and 30 than at other times in our lives. This is called the Memory Bump. ? We also recognise songs from this era more quickly than from other points in our lives. The Memory Bump is a period of our lives that is filled … Read more

Have you ever wondered how music is able to conjure memories of the people and places of your past? Why it can give you that flashback feeling? As we go through life, the music we love becomes neurologically intertwined with the most noteworthy people, places, and memories of our lives, forming a ‘neural tapestry’. This … Read more

If you brainscan someone listening to music, the screen lights up like a firework display as the music stimulates many parts of the brain at once. Music’s relationship with the brain is so special that there is a whole field of science dedicated to studying it. Recent research from the University of Utah shows that … Read more