\u00c2\u00a0Ever have a melody play over and over in your mind all day and you can’t get ride of it? I think most of us have had that experience many times over.<\/p>\n
Here is an explanation of that phenomenon by Daniel Levitin, author of “This Is Your Brain On Music”:<\/p>\n
You said that\u00c2\u00a0 “music sticks in the head,”\u00c2\u00a0 and in fact I’ve turned off the Stones but I can still hear Mick going\u00c2\u00a0 “oooh”\u00c2\u00a0 in my brain. Why do songs get lodged in there like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n Maybe it’s meant to get stuck in your head. Having “music in the head” allows you to experiment with variations. A lot of people report that when a song gets stuck in their head, the tempo will change a little, or the notes will. So it could be a kind of a game for exercising the mind. When a song gets stuck, it’s not the whole thing; it’s usually about 20 seconds of it. That’s about the same length as auditory short-term memory. And the songs tend to be relatively simple ones. It’s more likely Rihanna that’s in there and not Stravinsky or Mahler.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0Ever have a melody play over and over in your mind all day and you can’t get ride of it? I think most of us have had that experience many times over. Here is an explanation of that phenomenon by Daniel Levitin, author of “This Is Your Brain On Music”: You said that\u00c2\u00a0 “music sticks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-P5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}