{"id":3248012,"date":"2024-09-11T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=3248012"},"modified":"2024-09-11T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:00:43","slug":"music-learning-memory-3248012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/music-learning-memory-3248012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Music can enhance learning and change our memories"},"content":{"rendered":"
New research demonstrates music’s impact on learning and memory, with possible therapeutic applications for mental health.<\/p>\n
The music we know and might love, music that feels predictable or even safe\u2014that music can help us study and learn.<\/p>\n
Yiren Ren, a sixth-year PhD student in Georgia Tech’s School of Psychology, has also discovered, other kinds of music can influence our emotions and reshape old memories.<\/p>\n
Ren explores these concepts as the lead author of two new research papers in the journals PLOS One<\/em><\/a> and Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n “These studies are connected because they both explore innovative applications of music in memory modulation, offering insights for both every day and clinical use,” says Ren.<\/p>\n But the collective research explores music’s impacts in very different ways, explains Ren’s faculty advisor and coauthor of the study, Thackery Brown.<\/p>\n “One paper looks at how music changes the quality of your memory when you’re first forming it\u2014it’s about learning,” says Brown, a cognitive neuroscientist who runs the MAP (Memory, Affect, and Planning) Lab at Tech.<\/p>\n “But the other study focuses on memories we already have and asks if we can change the emotions attached to them using music.”<\/p>\nMood music<\/h3>\n