To understand music is to recognize place. Life is a soundtrack. This too is accounted for by neurochemistry, as Levitin writes.
Each time we hear a musical pattern that is new to our ears, our brains try to make an association through whatever visual, auditory and other sensory cues accompany it; we try to contextualize the new sounds, and eventually, we create these memory links between a particular set of notes and a particular place, time, or set of events.
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