What is happening in our brains when we listen to a song over and over again to memorize the lyrics? Is it like exercising a muscle or is it just constant repetition?
In: Biology
Your brain can best be described as a prediction forming machine, it takes the actions and events from your life and builds predictive models it’s how you consistently perform certain actions, muscle memory is just your brain building and strengthening those neural pathways, this was fundamental for our early survival, same logic applies to memorization, you keep coming across that information over and over so your brain strengthens the neural pathways related to that to prepare you for the next time,
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