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That Song Stuck in Your Head Is Helping the Brain with Long-Term Memory
- mikece 5y agoThe FIRST thing that popped into my head reading that headline: "HEY MACARENA!" (Yeah... I'm getting older.) And the reason that song is because years ago people wrote in to NPR to complain about a song they played at the end of an hour's news segment that "got stuck in people's heads all day" so they played a clip of it just to let listeners who didn't hear that segment know what the reference was. And to then apologize for re-sticking that song in people's brains they closed out the hour with "Macarena." I've never laughed harder at anything from NPR!
- mikewarot 5y agoJust yesterday my wife was playing the song we danced to as everyone was cleaning up at our wedding reception... just to help recall the day, and the feelings. Photographs also serve as a strong memory anchor for me.
- simonblack 5y agoJust hearing Fleetwood Mac's "Sweet Little Lies" brings a flashback of the sights, smells and sounds of standing in a shop while buying a boombox for my daughter a few days after my first wife and I separated. December 1987 - nearly 34 years ago.