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Monday, May 4, 2009

Song stuck in my head for 2 days

The sad part of it all is you don't even get to hear to the entire song. It's the equivalent of listening to a preview of a song on repeat in your brain.

Times like these make me wish I had some incite as to why our brains need to have a few clips of a track running over and over and over again. So I turned to google and here's a little bit of what I found:

"Research shows that people most frequently plagued by this phenomenon are those with slightly neurotic tendencies." Honestly, tell me something I don't know about myself. Apparently there's also a thing called "stupid lyrics syndrome" where combining a tune and lyrics ups the chance of song snippets staying with the listener for hours.

They also said, "Women were more likely than men to report feeling annoyed, frustrated, or irritated about having songs stuck in their heads
," which in my case, is not true. If a song is stuck in my head I am unable to keep it to myself; I have to sing it out loud over and over again, making my husband equally irritated, if not more.

I also found some more interesting stuff...and to my amazement I actually know what the hell they're talking about because of something I learned in college. Wow.
"Earworm is a term for a portion of a song or other musical material that repeats compulsively within one's mind. There have been claims that earworms may be songs or tunes that become stuck in the phonological loop, the part of the brain that rehearses verbal information in Baddeley's Model of Working Memory."

Who knew I could make a post about such a topic eh?

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