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.

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)

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 on 03.12.2011. Listen here again (49 minutes in)

Interviewed on BBC 5Live Breakfast show on the relationship between music and driving behaviour (01.12.2011: 6.53am). Similar interviews were broadcast on British Forces Radio, BBC Midlands, BBC South West, BBC Solent, BBC Kent, BBC Sheffield and Kingdom FM

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)

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.

Radio 4 program on Tone Deafness in September 2011. You can listen again here (starts at around14 minutes)

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. You can listen again here (start at around 20minutes and 15s into the broadcast)

Featured in a 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