The childhood songs stuck in your head are actually protecting your memory Remember singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” ...

It’s a nearly ubiquitous human experience: you’re walking down the street, or cooking dinner, or writing an email, and you suddenly realize that a snippet of a song is looping in your head. You might ...

Most people have experienced the moment when a few seconds of a song begin looping endlessly in the mind. Scientists call this an earworm, a term derived from the German word Ohrwurm, meaning a ...

Research shows teenage songs leave a lasting mark, yet men and women experience their musical reminiscence differently across the lifespan A new global study led by the University of Jyväskylä reveals ...

Following the success of Hooked on Music, the Music Cognition Group at the University of Amsterdam presents a new game: TuneTwins. Inspired by the classic Memory game, TuneTwins invites you to match ...

The Memory Show, which has book and lyrics by Sara Cooper and music by Zach Redler, is described as such: "Showing up is half the battle...and then there's the other half. When a daughter comes home ...

According to Leonardo Bonetti, a neuroscientist at Aarhus University and the University of Oxford, “There is really not a clear theory about earworms, because it's very difficult to study [them].” ...