Earworms have been linked to other medical conditions as well, and even harmless earworms can be intrusive and time-consuming. That makes them worth a closer look.
One in five people had experienced an earworm more than once a day, the study found. The typical length was 10 to 30 minutes, though 8.5% said theirs lasted more than 3 hours. Levels of"distress and interference" that earworms caused was mostly"mild to moderate."
If music is important to you, your earworms are more likely to last longer and be harder to control, "Very musical people may have more earworms because it's easy for them to conjure up a certain tune," says David Silbersweig, MD, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and co-director of the Institute for the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. may find earworms more bothersome.
MRI experiments found that"INMI is a common internal experience recruiting brain networks involved in perception, emotions, memory and spontaneous thoughts," a 2015 paper in These brain networks work in tandem if you connect a song to an emotional memory – that's when you're more likely to experience it as an earworm. The"loop" of music you'll hear in your head is usually a 20-second snippet.from the Netherlands put it.
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