Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? Not the whole song, but a fragment of it that plays and replays until you find yourself unloading the vegetables in time to the beat? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores earworms- a cognitive phenomenon that plagues over 90% of people at least once a week. [4:46]

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auditory, earworms, mental imagery, repetition, information processing and memory, ted ed: earworms: those songs that get stuck in your head

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