23 Jul 2025

Can You Name That Tune?

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Human musical memory is surprisingly durable':'' Babies can recognize familiar tunes, and people with dementia can often recall songs from their youth. Some tunes are especially sticky, whether we want to remember them or not. But scientists still don’t entirely understand how memory for music works. A new online game (doubling as a science project) called TuneTwins, which you yourself can play, might help.

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