Media

MEDIA FUN! This page contains a series of links highlighting media interest in Vicky’s research, and that of the Music, Mind and Brain group at Goldsmiths.

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A montage of recent  radio interviews regarding earworms can be heard here, anywhere in the world (Thanks to Henkjan Honing!)

Interviewed for an article in the Big Issue (Australia) about music and concentration. Really nice article by Tim Byron (and great artwork). Enjoy! (14.04.2012)

Very enjoyable chat about earworms with Jamie and Louise on BBC Wales morning program (10.04.2012)

Earworms in Spanish media: “La ciencia detrás de las canciones pegadizas” (03.04.2012)

Appeared on NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’ and listened to some fascinating earworm stories from the US (12.03.2012) Also appeared on Premiere Network public radio in the USA (The Big D and Bubba show! 27.03.2012)

Interviewed on the BBC 1 Breakfast News sofa about earworms. Similar live interviews on BBC Newcastle, BBC Kent, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Belfast, BBC Birmingham and Three Counties Radio (07.03.2012).

Eaworms study covered in the Today Online, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and the British Psychological Society News (07.03.2012).

Earworms are featured on the BBC online news page (06.03.2012). A few days later a follow-up feature on earworm cures from readers fetured on the BBC online magazine (09.03.2012).

Had great fun chatting to Chris Evans about earworms on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. You can listen again here for a short time (2 hours 10mins in) (29.02.2012)

Interviewed as part of a podcast for The World (US) on earworms (02.02.2012)

Interviewed on the BBC Breakfast sofa about the anniversary of Desert Island Discs and the role of music in memory (26.01.2012)

BBC World Service interview about my first earworm article. The recording starts around 10mins and 45 seconds into the program. The same interview was included in Radio 4′s ‘All in the Mind’ program which you can hear again here (about 21 minutes in)

Featured on BBC Breakfast item about music and driving behaviour. Can be seen here.

Interviewed on the World Today Weekend (BBC World Service) about earworms alongside Robert Fox. Listen here again (49 minutes in)

Interviewed on BBC 5Live Breakfast show on the relationship between music and driving behaviour (01.12.2011). Similar interviews were broadcast on British Forces Radio, BBC Midlands, BBC South West, BBC Solent, BBC Kent, BBC Sheffield and Kingdom FM

British Psychological Society Online Digest covers the first earworm article

Presented the ‘How Musical Are You?’ event at the British Science Festival ‘Senses Night’ in September 2011. View the program for the event here.

Interviewed for the Channel 4 series ’4Thought’ in July 2011. You can view the video on the Channel 4 website or on YouTube (UK only I am afraid).

Interviewed by Simon Mayo on the BBC 2 Drivetime show in June 2011, concerning why children like to move to music.

6Music promotional film of the project in 2010, which has an embarrassingly high number of hits on YouTube. Here you can find our shared page with BBC 6 Music, where we collect data for the earworms project.

Interviewed about the Earworm project on Radio 4′s ‘Material World’. You can listen again here ( Section starts 07.17 on timeline).

Interviewed for the BBC online on the role of the reward system in music listening. You can read the report here.

Interviewed for  Syfy, which promotes new science ideas as part of its Eureka Lab project. You can read the interview here.

Interviewed for an online music industry blog run by soundlounge.co.uk. You can read the interview here and follow the resulting industry advice here.

The earworm project was the subject of a CNN online article, which you can read here. The project was mentioned on BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright show on Mon, 25 Oct 2010.

Lauren Stewart and Vicky co-authored a Times Online Guest blog in July 2010: “Hooked on music: can’t get you out of my head” (behind a pay wall unfortunately)

Took part in the BBC A&M interactive meeting as a guest speaker in 2010, to talk about the earworm project. You can see a summary of the media presented here.

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Dr Daniel Müllensiefen’s work with the advertising agency DDB can be viewed here

Dr Lauren Stewart’s work in media can be viewed at the bottom of her homepage here