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Music, Language, and Memory

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

A recent study of stroke victims with damaged language abilities found that those who listened to music recovered better than those who listened only to audio books. Music plus words trumped words alone. Studio 360’s Gideon D’Arcangelo has witnessed this phenomenon first hand?with his mother Sylvia.

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