The Memory Box
The things an old song can unlock
I know memory is not some kind of DOC or JPEG or MP4 file stored in the brain, complete and coherent and ready to be “read” whenever needed. I know that much. I know memory is more about electricity and neural pathways and synapses. But none of that explains (to me) how I woke up this morning with a very particular song in my head—a song I hadn’t heard …
