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Inquiring Minds
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Music Can Help You Memorize Important Information
Indra: Music can be used as a powerful, mnemonic device. She says the mutually reinforcing cues of melody, rhythm, accent structure and rhyme create constraints such that not just any word will fit into the melody. Indra: Because the words bind to the melody in prescribed and constrained ways, it's very easy to remember well-formed lyrics or information contained in lyrics.
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