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Music on the brain: exploring how songs boost memory

How strongly music arouses emotions in people influences which aspects of their memories are improved by music

2025-06-23
(Press-News.org) Music improves mood and memory to such an extent that treatment strategies for diseases like Alzheimer’s or dementia sometimes incorporate music. But how music boosts memory remains unclear. In a new JNeurosci paper, Kayla Clark, from Rice University, and Stephanie Leal, from University of California, Los Angeles, explored what features of music improve memory in humans. 

After study participants viewed images of everyday experiences, the researchers played music and manipulated its features. Some features—like whether songs were happy or sad, or song familiarity—had no bearing on how well participants remembered the images. However, individual differences in the strength of emotional responses elicited from music did impact memory recall. Of note, this memory boosting effect was specific to different aspects of memory. Says Clark, “The more emotional that people became from the music, the more they remembered the gist of a previous event. But people who had more moderate emotional responses to music remembered more details of previous events.” 

According to the authors, their work points to the specificity with which music boosts aspects of memory. The authors emphasize that musical interventions for improving memory in patients may need to be personalized since music does not uniformly enhance memory. 

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About JNeurosci 

JNeurosci was launched in 1981 as a means to communicate the findings of the highest quality neuroscience research to the growing field. Today, the journal remains committed to publishing cutting-edge neuroscience that will have an immediate and lasting scientific impact, while responding to authors' changing publishing needs, representing breadth of the field and diversity in authorship. 

About The Society for Neuroscience 

The Society for Neuroscience is the world's largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. The nonprofit organization, founded in 1969, now has nearly 35,000 members in more than 95 countries. 

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[Press-News.org] Music on the brain: exploring how songs boost memory
How strongly music arouses emotions in people influences which aspects of their memories are improved by music