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Why Do Our Brains Remember So Much Music?

Check out all these people exercising brain-mouth muscle memory at Forecastle 2017. (J. Tyler Franklin/wfpl.org)
Check out all these people exercising brain-mouth muscle memory at Forecastle 2017. (J. Tyler Franklin/wfpl.org)

It’s probably happened to you: You’re driving down the highway, listening to music, and suddenly a song comes on that you haven’t heard in years. But without thinking, you can remember every single word.

This happened to Ashlie Stevens (@AshlieD_Stevens) of WFPL, which led her to wonder: How much music can our brains actually hold?

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