Roger Anunsen - The aging mind - Video 1

Before you were born, you heard that sound. That pace over and over and over. So your first brain stimulation must've been from what you heard or was it from what your brain felt? Was that your ear brain at work or was it your touch brain? Maybe it was both, and what we do know is that it's rhythm. Listen to this. Is that "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" or is it the song that helped us learn to recite twenty-six symbols, in order when we were very very young. Well it's now clear that music can and does help the learning process. The first song that you can remember is probably a lullaby [Music: woman singing] and it was a lullaby sung by someone who was close to you and sung it so many times that whenever you hear it today, your brain stops, at least for a nanosecond. And it might suddenly be flooded with a cascade of memories of mom or dad or grandma or grandpa. And the fact is that your brain encodes at a ridiculously early age. In fact, one study from Finland found that music can be imprinted or encoded, by a fetus in the womb and recalled several months after being born. And what's surprising, maybe the most surprising about this study, is that researchers found that when they changed the note, the babies' brains reacted to the wrong note. They were following a familiar song they had encoded in the womb and when that one note was heard, that wrong note signaled "something's wrong, something's wrong with that note." And what that song was is interesting too. Here the one they chose. [Music: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on guitar]