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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Musicians' ear
Post Subject: Emotional and Factual MemoryPosted by drdna on: 8/25/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote: |
| Mr. Boyk is rather audio–anomaly among typical musicians. |
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Well, I have to agree with this. I guess you do not publish an article of some point of view that is very obvious to everyone.
| Romy the Cat wrote: |
| I do not think that memory or knowledge has anything to do with it...Instead of knowledge I would vote for an evolved understanding…. |
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I agree also, but maybe I would use the term emotional memory. The standard memories are processes through a part of the brain called the hippocampus. If this is damaged or destroyed, no new memories are stored; but emotional responses will still form memories because they are processes through a part of the brain called the amygdala. Pleasure-pain learning occurs by yet another pathway.
Probably different aspects of memory are stored by each path and reconstituted as a whole when we recall something (including recalling or evoking music when we listen to a song.) So, as musicians are forced to strengthen certain aspects of learning music, they probably recall musical memories by a different proportion of the different pathways of memory.
Since different paths of memory may store different aspects of sound memory, the hallmarks of "important aspects of sound" will vary accordingly, as will the steroe system one builds to suit it.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site