Why Is That Song Stuck in My Head?!
Why do songs get stuck in our heads? And what can we do to get rid of them!? Michael Aranda explains current scientific thought on the subject (and also does a pretty good Shia LaBeouf impression)....
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You’re scrolling down your tumblr dash when you see an impossible piece of news about your favorite TV show. It sounds too good to be true, but you click anyway. And there he is in all his glory: Rick Astley, singing about how he’s never gonna give you up. You’ve been rick rolled. And the worst part is, you know that song is going to stay with you the rest of the day, a short snippet repeating itself over and over until you want to tear your ears out. You’ve got yourself an earworm: a repeating snippet of music, probably fifteen to twenty seconds long, that’s playing in your head without you consciously making it happen.. But why? How do songs get themselves stuck in your head? More importantly, how do you get rid of them? Turns out that ...
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You’re scrolling down your tumblr dash when you see an impossible piece of news about your favorite TV show. It sounds too good to be true, but you click anyway. And there he is in all his glory: Rick Astley, singing about how he’s never gonna give you up. You’ve been rick rolled. And the worst part is, you know that song is going to stay with you the rest of the day, a short snippet repeating itself over and over until you want to tear your ears out. You’ve got yourself an earworm: a repeating snippet of music, probably fifteen to twenty seconds long, that’s playing in your head without you consciously making it happen.. But why? How do songs get themselves stuck in your head? More importantly, how do you get rid of them? Turns out that ...
