{"id":643744,"date":"2024-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/09\/12\/the-science-behind-the-songs-stuck-in-your-head\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-science-behind-the-songs-stuck-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/09\/12\/the-science-behind-the-songs-stuck-in-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The science behind the songs stuck in your head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> We\u2019ve all been there \u2014 a song plays on the radio and suddenly it\u2019s stuck in <\/strong><strong>your <\/strong><strong>head, playing on repeat no matter how hard you try to shake it off.<\/strong> Studies have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0305735611406578\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that this is quite common, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/346060427_Earworm_frequency_in_adults_with_and_without_musical_training\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">especially<\/a> if you can play an instrument or are otherwise musically inclined. But that\u2019s pretty much as far as the science goes. We don\u2019t know exactly why musical earworms are so hard to ditch, but scientists have an idea which songs are more likely to stick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>What makes an earworm?<\/strong> It\u2019s not just the song you\u2019ve listened to last. A song with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/buy\/2016-53098-001\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">faster<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/buy\/2016-53098-001\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">tempo<\/a> or where the artist holds <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/research.gold.ac.uk\/id\/eprint\/10192\/1\/1124_Proc.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">longer notes<\/a> are harder to shake off than others. The bad news is that these songs can pop into your head unprompted, triggered by a single note or by a phrase. Even worse, they\u2019re <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/10\/well\/mind\/songs-earworm-causes.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">harder to ignore<\/a> if you\u2019re working on a difficult task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>How to fight back:<\/strong> A 10-year-old study (evidence we\u2019ve been trying to get these songs out of our head for a while) reports that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17470218.2015.1034142\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">chewing gum<\/a> can help. Psychologist Emery Schubert believes that this works because the physical act of chewing the gum overrides the same parts of the brain that are involved with playing those earworms on repeat. If worse comes to worse, pick another catchy song you like more than the one you currently can\u2019t shake off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don\u2019t know why earworms are hard to ditch, but scientists have an idea which songs are more likely to stick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7215],"tags":[633,638,148,322],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-643744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-your-commute","tag-enterprisepm","tag-for-your-commute","tag-music","tag-science","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"59d2bcb2-732f-4e19-83d2-d9bca0d0b4c8","order":"3","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/9\/1023.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"","related_issue":[643740],"teaser":"We don\u2019t know why earworms are hard to ditch, but scientists have an idea which songs are more likely to stick","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/9\/.c3f259eb-4b99-4008-bc9b-531c5eadb96e.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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