Just got to actually witness that effect yet again over this holiday season, accompanying my wife's ladies singing mission work at the senior citizen homes around the area. I dig gettin' to pound out all the great old carols on the piano anyway. And, yes, the people who work at these places are rather constantly telling us that we got some certain somebody to sing with us, yet they are basically nonresponsive the rest of the time.

I'm all but convinced that Music uses different parts of the brain than many of the other communication functions. Witness the music savants, who, typically at a very young age, are able to play just about anything they've heard yet have never had "benefit" of piano lessons or practice sessions. Where does that come from?

Likely the same place that the ability an Alzheimer's patient responding to songs they apparently knew well when younger.


--Mac

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