Why do you get “stuck” songs

This most likely happened to you: you seem to have listened to not the most intricate song, but its motive is so

It “sticks” in your head so that you then walk around humming it for several days, or even weeks. Izvestia, with reference to psychiatrist Galina Rodriguez-Rodriguez, spoke about this phenomenon. Discuss

English scientists even came up with a name for thisphenomenon - earworm (literally "ear worm"). Such states are explained by the fact that most often sticky melodies are quite simple, and the text in most cases is simple. Therefore, annoying songs are easy to remember. This happens at moments when we are either too immersed in the thought process, or, conversely, are not busy with anything.

Galina Rodriguez-RodriguezPsychiatrist

So, people can even remember songs or melodies,which they don’t like at all, the doctor notes. Which, by the way, leads to stress in a person, which significantly reduces the ability to focus on something important.