Emotional music connected to the mind’s memory

According to a study published in Frontiers, emotional music can trigger memories associated with that melody.[1]  The experiments involved the use of fMRI to “Investigate brain structures activated by emotional processing of short excerpts of (music).” The findings indicate that musical stimuli vs. silence activated several key areas of the human brain associated with memory. More information can be found at:  

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00114/full

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[1] Altenmüller E, Siggel S, Mohammadi B, Samii A and Münte TF (2014) Play it again, Sam: brain correlates of emotional music recognition. Front. Psychol. 5:114. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00114