The soundtrack of this story begins with a vaguely recognizable and pleasant groove. But if I stop writing and just listen for a second, the music reveals itself completely.
Georgia Institute of TechnologyAug 29 2024 In Freddie Hubbard's comfortable, lilting trumpet solo over Herbie Hancock's melodic, repetitive piano vamping, I recognize "Cantaloupe Island." Then, with my fingers again poised at the keyboard, Freddie and Herbie fade into the background, followed by other instrumental music: captivating -; but not distracting -; sonic nutrition, feeding my concentration and productivity.
"One paper looks at how music changes the quality of your memory when you're first forming it -; it's about learning," says Brown, a cognitive neuroscientist who runs the MAP Lab at Tech. "But the other study focuses on memories we already have and asks if we can change the emotions attached to them using music."
The researchers could watch all this happening with fMRI . They could see the altered brain activity in the study participants, the increased connectivity between the amygdala, where emotions are processed, and other areas of the brain associated with memory and integrating information. There is no time machine that will allow us to go back and insert happy music into the mix while a bad event is happening and a memory is being formed, "but we can retrieve old memories while listening to affective music," says Brown. "And perhaps we can help people shift their feelings and reshape the emotional tone attached to certain memories."
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