Daniel Levitin | Thinking Straight in an Age of Information Overload
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The Impact of Music on the Brain
"I was probably the worst player on the team. I was the most improved player, which just means you're the shittiest player," he says. "My high school band director used to tell people he said, yes, string is a tuba player, but he was a trumpet player in a past life because his ego is so damn big" He asks: What's the impact of the music on the brain that that memory would come up like that? We tend to remember best those things that were most emotional for us,. Emotional because they were surprising or because they were joyous or they were terrible.
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