Michael Thaut

And so what we are seeing is that in people with dementia, very often at later stages, when they are not able to recall the names of their children, their, you know, friends, they are still able to recall the lyrics of a song they heard, you know, during their adolescence.

There's some beautiful clips also on YouTube, but that observation became really imp- ... critical in research, thinking about, okay, what is it about those musical memories that make them kind of stickier in the brain? Because they are memories, but kind of how are they different, and how are they embedded differently? And the research I would like to highlight actually comes from my PhD mentor, Dr.

Michael Thaut, who is really the, I would say, one of the key people in this clinical translation of the knowledge that we have about music and the brain.

And in some of his studies, they found that, you know, when you are listening to music that was, you know, let's say I play something to you an hour before you go to a MRI scanner, that's a new music composed based on your preferences.