From the course: Improving Your Memory
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Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
From the course: Improving Your Memory
Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
- Have you ever had a song get stuck in your head? How about this one? ♪ A B C D E F G ♪ ♪ H I J K L M N O P ♪ You know this song. It helped you remember the alphabet. You learned the alphabet as a song because it's easier that way. In fact, research shows that text associated with music is more easily remembered when it's learned as a song than when it's learned as a speech. For example, a study published in the Journal of Memory and Cognition showed that people can learn a new language more effectively when they sang the words rather than speaking the words. Keep in mind that some of the world's greatest works of literature, such as the "Odyssey" or the "Iliad", were originally read allowed as songs. So why is it that songs are so easy to remember? Much of it has to do with repetition. If the song was popular at the time, we heard it over and over again. But aside from that, songs have all sorts of repetition…
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