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Re: Tonal Songs and glossalalia

From:Gary Shannon <reboot@...>
Date:Friday, April 16, 1999, 1:02
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: Tonal Songs and glossalalia


><snip> > > I once knew someone who claimed that she could only study to music ---
but
>music you could sing to >or at least hum the melody to. Then, while sitting at the exam, all she had
to
>do was sing or hum (quietly) >the music and she had total recall of everything she learned! >
I read about a study four or five years ago that claimed that something learned while music was playing was significantly easier to recall when the same music was played again. I think I saw it in Science News, or some other popular publication of the sort. --Gary.