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Music and Memory

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Music Aids in Memory

Music aids in memory because it helps in the retrieval process. Structure, through things like rhythm and rhyme, acts as a cue that makes it easier to retrieve the stored information of the next line. It is similarly easier to recall lines of poems, even though they're not sung out loud. Just poems that ave a my say, metr and rhyme than it is to recall just lines of unstructured prose from stories that i like.

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