I would guess that certain patterns in the music reinforce neural connections that recognize patterns. This may be one of those structures that have evolved in our mind to remember music, it is a method of archiving information in tribal man (us included). If this pattern is sensitive enough random background noise may trigger the neurons to fire rather than the song itself. Remembering the song itself may trigger that memory over and over as well, making the connection even stronger, this would be useful for archival as the song (in theory stored information) would be self-reinforcing. (Yes, I took an AI programming class in college, why do you ask?)
So, essentially we're neural-net core memory re-freshing it's memory state.
This has no basis in cold hard fact, but it seems a likely theory of the nature of the phenomenon.
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:53 pm (UTC)So, essentially we're neural-net core memory re-freshing it's memory state.
This has no basis in cold hard fact, but it seems a likely theory of the nature of the phenomenon.