If you’ve ever wondered why your brain goes ahead and gets the most obnoxious songs stuck in your head, collision detection sheds some light on the “earworm” phenomena with their look at a Dartmouth press release. By hooking up some folks to fMRIs and watching their auditory cortexes whilst blasting both familiar and unfamiliar music, Darthmouth University researchers were able to figure out what keeps a song playing in our heads long after the music’s stopped. Now if they had some quick and dirty advice to getting that Enya song out of my head, that would be great.
Press Release [Dartmouth via collision detection]
