VIC136H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Podcasts Week 5: Involuntary Memory
13 Feb 2016
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Podcasts for week 5: sticky songs and gossip. In german, they"re called earworms , catchy songs that you can"t get out of your songs. Involuntary memory: when something in an environment that you don"t really need to be paying attention but this memory can be accidentally triggered by a link that is almost a domino effect. Somewhere down that line, a tune comes into your mind and it"s stuck there for a while. Scientists can tell if a tune is likely to be catchy; if you have longer notes and with smaller jumps between notes, you"re more likely to create a sticky tune as it makes the music more easily sung. In history, we"ve kept track of information in songs for many years due to the fact that they were easy to remember; our brains were evolutionary made to remember these tunes. Sticky songs are the musical version of unwanted thoughts.
