Music, visualisation and memory

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Music for memorization

As I noted in another thread just a few minutes ago, I was recently reading Oliver Sacks’s book Musicophilia. I have also begun reading into the technical literature on music in cognitive neuroscience and similar areas, for professional reasons I won’t get into here (you don’t want to know!). I stumbled on something quite striking. We all talk about “muscle memory” as though this were a known and real phenomenon, but if we think about it, we presumably realize that there is no such thing. Memor…