![]() Neuroscientists have analysed the brain mechanisms related to memory, finding that words set to music are the easiest to remember. It is the structure of the song that helps us to remember it, as well as the melody and the images the words provoke. ![]() Music helps because it provides a rhythm and rhyme and sometimes alliteration which helps to unlock that information with cues. It doesn’t simply come when you ask it to. The hippocampus and the frontal cortex are two large areas in the brain associated with memory and they take in a great deal of information every minute. Before the narratives could be written down, they were chanted or sung. David C Rubin is a specialist in autobiographical memory and oral traditions and in his ground-breaking book Memory in Oral Traditions he explains how epic stories like Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey were passed down verbally using poetic devices. Music has been an important mnemonic device for thousands of years. It is already used to help dementia patients, the elderly, and for those suffering from depression. The relationship between music and memory is powerful, and new research is hoping to discover how these memories work for therapeutic effect. You can feel everything as if you were actually there. This is an experience shared by everyone: hear a piece of music from decades later and you are transported back to that particular moment, like stepping into a time machine. ![]() But were I deliberately to try and remember something particular from that holiday, without the music, I would recall nothing as immediate or emotional. I hear just one refrain from it – “It's a soul companion/ You can feel it everywhere” – and the late nights and sandy beaches come immediately to mind. It’s a tune by the German Eurodance group Snap!, that was played a lot one summer as I travelled across Europe. We’re expecting Kasa itself, new skills, child companions, minigames, cooking, music performance, new forms, and several huge chunks of the world unlocked – you can see four of them in the shaded regions on the map itself.Rhythm Is a Dancer’ is the song that does it for me. But it looks as if we’ll see four additional launches before getting out of the “chapter zero” phase and moving on to the real final release. The roadmap is surprisingly detailed, although it doesn’t have dates or windows for the launches. Spot Flik as she slips in and out of the shadows and also visit Travelers’ Meadow where every blue Night Flower represents a backer.” I think this game just promised us a Cozy Nap, you guys. Secret Cultists will find the Fan of the Hidden already in their knapsack. ![]() “All backers will be equipped with the Cozy Nap skill, and the skill to portal to Travelers’ Meadow and use the Coterie Brew. “Skills and items for earlybirds will all be in your knapsack when you set out on day one of Early Access, these are the Lantern of the Early Light, Ring of Cycles, Reveal Day Cycle skill, Call of the Umber Yu skill,” the studio says. In the meantime, Might and Delight has posted two things of note to its Kickstarter page: backer rewards and a roadmap. We’re just a few days away from the long-delayed early access launch of tiny MMO Book of Travels indeed, higher-end backers are already in the early access for the early access, and the last round of backers will get their keys on Sunday.
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