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Enhance Long Term Memory with Music

The way in which the brain works is one of the great mysteries and wonders of science. Information is acquired, stored and retrieved in the brain by a complex process. The human brain is a constellation of billions of neural cells which communicate with one another by forming networks that are the basis of human awareness and memory.

Learning new knowledge or skill is a process of forming connections among these cells. Patterns of neural networks are unique to each individual. Every person’s memory is formed from bits and pieces of existing networks resulting from previous knowledge or skill training, making past learning experience crucial to more advanced learning, also the immediate requirements of the memory tasks at hand. As new materials are encoded in the memory, existing networks expand, forming new memory “constellations”

Skills in good writing - content, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and voice - are mastered through meaningful active learning processes in context rather than in isolation. When the brain sees the connections, it stores information in long term memory.

The plasticity (ability to change) or reconfigurations of neural networks means that effective practice and mastery of past work will always be beneficial to new tasks. This holds true with science, math, reading and writing, where new knowledge “scaffolds” or builds on previous knowledge, and where new learning “evolves” to a higher level rather than acting as a mere add-on.

No less potent to memory are the emotional feelings associated with thoughts. Signals from emotional activity “sparkle” through memory networks as one learns and recalls stored information. One’s conscious thoughts constantly influence how one learns and remembers, again affecting long term memory. Meaningfully challenging input, which can bring in positive anxiety, reshapes thinking to a higher level. The practical application can manifest as the addition of good music (musical play according to personal taste) to accompany the learning process of knowledge or skill, it simply also can be done by playing an instrumental music while we are working to forbid focus shift by any musical lyrics.

Although there is no conclusive evidence that music will improve your intelligence and there have not been many experiments that have looked to see how the brain processes music; measurements of brain activity using the electroencephalogram (EEG) have shown that both the right and left hemispheres are responsive to music.