His head was stuck music? It is time to rest!

If you have stuck in your head some melody would never wanting to go out, the blame should be stress, memories and stimuli of daily life. This is the conclusion of experts from Goldsmith College in London.

British scientists have collected more than 2 500 cases of "stranded   head musics "Which in the West is sometimes called" ear worms "because of their vsepronikaemost and indestructibility. It turned out that in the human mind some music or a song stuck not only because they are" catchy ". The reason can also be a stress Various stimuli of daily life and memories.

For example, a woman in the head constantly hears the song of Bananarama. It turned out that this is related to stressful events in her life. For the first time she heard this song when to take the exam in 16 years. Then the song sounded in her head during the wedding and the birth of the child. However, not alone stress   It makes us hard to scroll through the same melody in mind.

"Music is often encoded in the consciousness of every man in his own way, with certain personal and emotional differences - said study author Dr. Vicki Williamson. - And the deeper the emotional point of view, would be an event, the more postponed the music. Ear worms are kind of part of the involuntary memory. That is the same area of ​​the brain makes a person suddenly thought of a friend who he had not seen a hundred years. "

By the way, no most popular songs get stuck in the mind does not exist. Dr Williams has compiled a list of 1000 these compositions, and only 6 of them were mentioned more than once, that is "stuck" in the minds of two people at once. So it is a very individual phenomenon - everyone has his own "worm."

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