What actually happens in the brain when a song gets “stuck in your head”? Why can’t we control that one specific part and why can’t we choose which ones get stuck?
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We don’t really know, but music cognition scientists think it may have something to do with the role of expectation in the way we listen to music. Here’s a short video by a music theorist specializing in cognition who teaches at Princeton (it’s really an ad for a longer TED talk):
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