Here's why some tunes (“Baby Shark,” we’re looking at you!) get stuck your head -- even without any audible stimuli.
are more prone to earworms. “Their brains are wired to reflect and reflect and reflect,” Arthur says. There’s even a small subset of the population that suffers from earworms on steroids. Dubbed intrusive musical imagery, or IMI, these musical obsessions can last for months, even years, wreaking havoc on the person’s life and work.Most people aren’t too bothered by the occasional catchy tune playing on a loop in their heads.
. When you only know one part of the song, that’s the bit that gets stuck. Once you listen to the whole song all the way through, your brain gets the message that it’s complete, so there’s no need for it to repeat. Don’t have time to play the song in its entirety? Cue the applause. That’s a trick Arthur uses to signal to her mind that the song is over. “I imagine that I’m at a concert, and I hear the audience clapping and cheering in my mind,” she says..
, a 42-second track that’s designed to disrupt the neural patterns that latch onto a catchy song. “There’s no rhythm, no melody, and it just takes up space in your phonological loop,” Arthur says.gets a lot of flak for potentially putting writers out of business, but if you’ve got an earworm, it could provide an antidote. Try this: Tell ChatGPT, “You are Weird Al Yankovic, make these lyrics funny and about Star Wars.
While you may be tempted to try to suppress earworms, Kellaris cautions against it. They’re like a cognitive itch. Scratching them will only make the episode last longer. Instead, when a pesky earwormget trapped in your head, try to remember that “you can’t always get what you want … but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.”
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