There’s a reason you gravitate toward the music you loved during your middle school, high school and college years, even with all of the great, new music that’s out there.
The music you listened to as you were growing up and developing your identity actually impacts your brain differently than music you hear now, research shows.
“It’s really just the intersection of brain science and our personal stories,” said Danica Shinn, a social worker and the operations director at Marble Wellness in Missouri. “The adolescent brain, when it’s developing, really locks in not just music, but new experiences and different things from that time.”
If you find yourself playing songs that were in frequent rotation on a mixtape or your iPod shuffle decades ago, here’s why:
Your love of music from your teenage years has to do with the ‘reminiscence bump.’
