Why can we hum / sing a melody, when the original has chords?

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When humming a melody from, for example, a piano piece. It doesn’t have one single note, but several playing at the same time. Why can I hum a melody that sounds like the piece?

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Brain is just good at remembering sounds and pattern, which is essential to understand speech. And melodies are patterns of sounds.

And we are all standard issued an instrument (our throat, to produce sounds), so we have the hardware to replicate melodies.

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