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

They go by many names: Brain worms, sticky music (thanks Oliver Sacks), cognitive itch, stuck song syndrome. But the most common (if also the most repugnant) is earworms, a literal translation from Ohrwurm , a term used to describe the phenomenon (and perhaps bring to mind an immediate association with corn earworms ).

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