Earworms
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SMPC Day 2: Session 2 (Imagery and earworms)
The afternoon of Day 2 was to feature a session on earworms and imagery, where I was to give my talk on ‘Coping with earworms’. This would be the first public presentation of my group’s data on how people deal with the tunes that get stuck in their head, so I was nervous and anxious to see if a) anyone was interested and b) what people thought of the research. First however, I had the pleasure of sitting in on the presentation of my good friend Georgina Floridou (Goldsmiths, University of London) who was presenting her PhD work on the relationship between earworms and mind wandering. Georgina has a strong…
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Earworm interview
Hello dear reader This week I begin my new job as a postdoctoral fellow on a 3 year project investigating the earworm phenomenon. I am sure my readers are well aware by now, an earworm refers to the experience of having a tune or a part of a tune stuck in your head. To kick off the project I thought I would reproduce for you an interview that I recently completed for the Spanish popular science magazine Redes para la Ciencia. The author of the article is Octavi Planells and this interview is reprinted with her permission. If you would like a PDF copy of the Spanish language article then just drop a comment…
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