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Why do songs get stuck in your head (earworms)—what happens in your brain when a melody repeats all day?

Mechanism: explanation, relatable curiosity

Payoff: Explains common earworm phenomenon: catchiness, simple melodies, repetition, and unfinished musical patterns make a song loop in your brain.

Factual: pendingApproval: pending1 evidence links

Performance

3.26× medianBaseline: 20

Evidence

1youtube

Duplicates

0Exact component-level matches

Limitations

0No missing signal is coerced to zero
Evidence1
youtube · youtube.video
sAyrZbTKFPcOpen source
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Duplicate signals0

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Limitations0

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