Music As A Positive Effects On Memory And Memory

It is a stark reality that memory tends to fade with the passing of the years especially in middle age people and older. “To do lists” usually become part of older people’s daily routines. Methods to decrease such negative effects are widely sought to counter this evil: from self-help books, brain games, and supplements such as Ginkgo Biloba. Scientifically there are a small number of studies indicating that music may help people’s mood and emotion, and thus improve positive effects on memory processes. Memory involves three processes encoding, storage, and retrieval, (Ford-Martin, 2001). As the research of each of these processes could be extremely long to conduct, this work aims to study how music could help middle-age people to free-recall.

Free-recall is associated with memory: the ability to store and latter remember events and facts previously learned. The element of attention (focus on particular tasks ignoring the rest) is essential in free-call. There are many factors that can affect free-recall: concussions, brain ailments, to the normal aging process to name a few. On another issue, a technique used to help children memorize educational material has been music, (Ford-Martin, 2001). Music is an integration of various elements: melody, harmony, tone, and rhythm. To process music, the human brain follows an ordered sequence. For this to take place, several areas of the brain must be simultaneously activated. Music has even the power to evoke various affective states in humans: emotions and/or moods, (Bigliassi, León-Domínguez, & Altimari,

The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the amygdala, hippocampus, and midbrain are among some of the brain regions that have been corroborated been activated by the music, (Bigliassi et al., 2015). Additionally, It has been found that exposure to uplifting music has strong effects on P3a, P3b and reward systems in the brain. Currently, it is believed that P3a depends on the frontal lobes and reflect attracting attention for a distractor stimulus; whereas P3b amplitudes have consideration processes on memory upgrading, (Riby, 2013). Moreover, music can promote the release of dopamine through the mechanisms of pleasure. Music perceived as pleasant can stimulate learning opportunity, (Gebauer et al.,