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I can remember song lyrics from 20 years ago but forget someone's name 5 minutes after meeting them

Songs are encoded in a different memory system than names. Musical memory uses procedural memory (linked to emotion and rhythm), while names use episodic memory — which is far more fragile.

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The brain dedicates significantly more neural real estate to processing music than to processing language — music is one of the most cognitively complex things humans do.

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