Friday, November 11, 2011

The Science of Earworms

Scientific American wrote The Science of Earworms, or Why You Can’t Get that Damn Song Out of Your Head.

"'Simply, an earworm is the experience of an inability to dislodge a song and prevent it from repeating itself in one’s head.' Oh, thaaat. In the last five years, earworms have become the subject of peer-reviewed scientific studies."

I'm not sure they have many results yet. But they do have a poll you can take, perhaps the most annoying single question poll ever. You can choose from a list of the 76 most annoying songs to have stuck in your head. Good luck reading through that.

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