Saturday, July 22nd, 2006, 8:50 am
The Songs That Grip Our Minds
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I found the following article quite fascinating.
Songs we hear as teenagers tend to remain lifelong favourites because they become hardwired into our memory during a critical time, a memory conference has heard.
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“You recall more memories from the period of 10 to 25 [than previous or subsequent periods] and the bump has a peak between 16 and 20,” he says.
“The brain works at its optimum in that period. It’s a sponge and it soaks up everything.”
To name just a few songs that will remain with me forever: “Tonight” by Blackstreet and a couple of renditions of “I Can’t Go for It”. I tend to associate — mentally that is — album covers with certain songs that eternally stay in my head.
