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Why can Alzheimer’s patients often recognize familiar music, even though their other memories are harder to access?

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its their memories of music were considered “important” to them, so their brains still

react to this sound.

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Musical memories are often preserved in Alzheimer's disease because key brain areas linked to musical memory are relatively undamaged by the disease.

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