[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL998ajnjN4
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Empty_Bliss_Beyond_This_Wor...
We did it when he was 90, and happy now that he's getting a little demented.
Amazing that they’re still in there somewhere.
This clearly taps into our ability to find our way back to the cave after going out hunting for food. Our ability to memorise the route home was necessary to survive.
I read somewhere that early language was more tonal. Closer to singing than the defined words we use now. So, perhaps our ability to memorise music was actually an innate ability to remember early stories or facts shared with the group? Again, leading to increased survival chances.
So there's some specific memory pathway for audio. Unclear if that would trigger by just, e.g., reading a passage in melody form. Would the audio imprint?
[] Experiment: how fast could I learn a piano piece by first listening to one specific recording several times, to let the audio imprint in my memory?
Edit: It's actually a whole lab at her university, it seems. Their publications: https://sarahasauve.wixsite.com/femslab/publications
My own experience is that music recognition increases with (my) age, and I've come close to perfect pitch, contrary to some studies I recall (not as well as the music). With the exception of some wildly overplayed pieces (IMO!!) which seem immensely popular, I can hear others over and over. I suspect it's either the depth, lyricism, vivid emotion, internal complexity, or stunning perfection in simplicity (a la Mozart)
Someone posted a Ukranian hymn, which I recognized as a movement from a Brahms symphony.
My observations only. YMMV. Music keeps me feeling young.
It gets grants more easily and looks good to the kind of people that matter when featured on university PR releases.