Earworms
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Sticky jingles: Top 10 and thoughts on learning
Hello All. In between my normal academic life this week I have been having some fun engaging with a survey of the stickiest jingles ever made in the UK. By this stage my brain is truly ringing with these little tunes, but to be honest I am quite enjoying some of them. They bring back a lot of childhood memories and most of them make me smile 🙂 Lucky for you, I have exclusive access to the stats from this survey The public survey of 2000 men and women was carried out by Chicken Tonight UK in June of 2012. You may not know about Chicken Tonight if you are…
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Day 3 – The power of musical imagery
Day 3 of the Edinburgh conference began with brilliant sunshine and a light breeze. I awoke early to put up my poster, and those of other members of my research group in the Playfair library, an amazing long reading room. I spent a few minutes perfecting the art of sticking pins into the presentation boards using only one hand before going anywhere near the precious posters! (My wrist was still in a brace at this point following a sprain). Eventually however, all the posters were up and looking lovely. I was eagerly anticipating my poster presentation, talking to whoever desired to learn more about our work on visuo-spatial processing in…