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Music recruits hearing, memory, and emotion circuits together

Music recruits hearing, memory, and emotion circuits together

Music recruits hearing, memory, and emotion circuits together

A song is not one brain region. Pitch, rhythm, lyrics, and feeling light auditory cortex plus memory and reward networks in concert.

That chorus is why a chorus can yank a decade-old scene into the room before you finish the first line.

Music is a full-stack stimulus. Few everyday inputs recruit so many systems at the same tempo.

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

Music recruits hearing, memory, and emotion circuits together