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November 8, 2012

The Beatles' Surprising Contribution to Science

Jon Hamilton, NPR


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The same brain system that controls our muscles also helps us remember music, scientists say.

When we listen to a new musical phrase, it is the brain's motor system — not areas involved in hearing — that helps us remember what we've heard, researchers reported at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans last month.

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TAGGED: hearing, recognition, memory, music, neuroscience

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