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Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Earworms as an excuse to talk about mental simulations and working memory

This week I’d like to talk about an intriguing phenomenon: earworms, those bits of songs that start playing in your head for hours and sometimes even days on end. More specifically, I’d like to talk about a comment that biologist John Medina makes about earworms in an entry entitled “As the Worm Turns” in his substack “John Medina’s Brain Rules”. I call it a comment because, as Medina admits right off, no one really knows much about what causes earworms. But the two neurological considerations that he raises are still interesting. They relate to two key concepts that I of course discuss on my website: mental simulation and working memory. (more…)

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