why is it so easy for our brains to memorize songs after 3-4 times of listening to them but way harder to memorize a regular written paragraph?
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Don’t forget that it’s unlikely that you’re recalling a song perfectly. You’re likely ignoring /it not noticing it /not remembering the exact melody. And recalling music usually only recalls one aspect, such as melody or harmony, or the words being sung by one person, or a specific instrument or beat.
Most people can’t actually recall multiple aspects simultaneously; your focus may shift from one thing to another in the musical piece but you’re not actually recalling the piece in total all simultaneously.
So it’s easy to think you can recall music accurately. And there’s not much error correction your brain has to do when it makes a mistake doing so. It just skips past mistakes or omissions, or does little fills when you can’t remember a bit.
Recalling the written word requires more accuracy. It simply stops making sense if you recall it in banana, moving van the… wait…. uh if it recall it in uh oh. Incorrectly. If you recall it incorrectly. And you immediately notice.
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