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Seven Ages of Memory

What are we without our memories? Philip Ball asks how we first become our musical selves through our memories and if it is inevitable that we lose them with age and infirmity.

What are we without our memories? Philip Ball talks to neuroscientists about when we first become our musical selves through our memories and asks if it is inevitable that we lose them with age and infirmity. He explores the idea that our abilities to recall music reveal particular aspects of the workings of the human brain.

Part of Why Music? The Key to Memory, a weekend of events, concerts and discussions exploring the implications of music's unique capacity to be remembered.

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