Just something light and maybe interesting.
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Long article about the how's and why's of earworms
and this and other ways to stop them,
you can read if you click on this link:
http://www.today.com/health/earworm-one-simple-trick-will-get-rid-it-t21236
"It's almost "song of the summer" time. Whether that belongs to Taylor Swift ("Style"), Britney Spears ("Pretty Girls") or someone else, one thing's clear, you won't be able to avoid it. It will get relentlessly stuck in your head.
A new study offers hope for those earworms.
A simple sliver of gum may banish those irritating scraps of music that embed themselves in our brains, British researchers found.
A series of experiments revealed when people chewed gum right after listening to an especially catchy tune, they were less likely to be plagued by the pesky piece of music, according to the study published this week in The Journal of Experimental Psychology.
"The study was based on the idea that there is an overlap between the memory systems responsible for recalling speech and music and those systems responsible for actually producing speech and music," says C. Philip Beaman, the study's lead author and an associate professor of cognitive science at the Centre for Cognition Research and the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading, U.K.
"There is evidence that vigorous chewing both interferes with memory for speech and makes imagining tunes, specifically pitch and melody, more difficult and less vivid."
"I think chewing anything should work provided you do it vigorously and it provides some resistance and it isn't anything that just dissolves in your mouth," Beaman says.
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