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    Why we remember music but forget everything else...

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    For many people, music feels like a part of our subconscious. It’s constantly playing in the background, whether we’re at a coffee shop, in the elevator, working from home, or even just walking down the street. Every year, Spotify tells us how many minutes we’ve spent listening to music. I spent 53,402 minutes in 2021—17 hours a week—which is far more time than I’ve spent doing most other things. In 2017, Nielsen estimated that Americans spend over 32 hours a week on average listening to music. It’s no surprise that we have such a strong memory for music and can easily recall lyrics and melodies, even if we haven’t heard them in years.

    In March, a new Wordle spinoff called Heardle launched. It tests musical memory by asking people to identify a song after hearing only one second of it, and for every wrong guess, extends the track by one second. I was excited to have a place to use my musical knowledge, and I’m not the only one. Millions of players have used Heardle to identify popular and nostalgic songs from different generations, from the Fugees to Spice Girls to Adele.

    The popularity of Heardle taps into an interesting part of human psychology: how deeply we store music in memory and how easily we can recall it. “There is an approach called the gating paradigm [which is] very similar to the Heardle app,” says Dr. Kelly Jakubowski, assistant professor of music psychology at Durham University in the U.K. “You present one note [and then two, and then three to] see how long it takes people to identify a piece of music, so I think that it’s quite funny that they’ve kind of tapped on that [with Heardle].” Manyof us can hear music in our minds, which is called having musical or auditory imagery.


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    I have always wondered why you can listen to a song over and over again but get made fun of if you read a book twice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    I have always wondered why you can listen to a song over and over again but get made fun of if you read a book twice.
    Who reads a book just twice?
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    I have read The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich four and a half times
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I have read The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich four and a half times
    Just once for me. I picked it up a second time recently. The text shrank rendering it a poor fit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Who reads a book just twice?
    ? Just twice? I said just once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    I have always wondered why you can listen to a song over and over again but get made fun of if you read a book twice.
    In part no doubt because it takes only a few minutes to listen to a song, and you can do other things while you listen, whereas reading a book is a more serious investment in time. At my age I almost feel guilty reading a book more than once, regardless of how much I enjoyed it - simply because there are thousands of other books, many of the same type or by the same author, that I might read for the first time instead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    I have always wondered why you can listen to a song over and over again but get made fun of if you read a book twice.
    Ive never heard of anyone being ridiculed for reading a book twice. Many people do it all time. I know I get something new out a of book when I read it more than once. Especially something historical in nature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    In part no doubt because it takes only a few minutes to listen to a song, and you can do other things while you listen, whereas reading a book is a more serious investment in time. At my age I almost feel guilty reading a book more than once, regardless of how much I enjoyed it - simply because there are thousands of other books, many of the same type or by the same author, that I might read for the first time instead.
    Related- audio books. I can't pay attention well enough to "read" that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Related- audio books. I can't pay attention well enough to "read" that way.
    I've only ever listened to three audiobooks in my life, which I did in the car on my way to and from work. One because it happened to be my all-time favorite novel, 'All the Pretty Horses' by Cormac McCarthy, and I found the audiobook at a thrift store for a few bucks and was curious what it would sound like being read by somebody; and the other two were books by Patton Oswalt and Jim Gaffigan, both read by the author, and they're two of my favorite comedians.

    On the subject of reading books, if you own a great number of books, you already know what someone visiting your home for the first time is likely to say - especially if they are somebody who doesn't own a lot of books. "Have you read all these books?" Were I being completely honest, I would probably say something like, "No, and I doubt that I'll live long enough to do that. Anyway, some of the books I bought knowing I'd probably never get around to reading them, but only collecting them." What I say instead is simply, "Not yet".
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