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When dementia selectively preserves emotional memories

My grandmother doesn't recognize me anymore but she lights up when I play her favorite songs, and I don't understand how music reaches her when nothing else does.

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The selective preservation of certain types of memory and recognition in cognitive decline reveals the complex architecture of human consciousness.

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