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Why do songs get stuck in your head?

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While long thought to be a result of short catchy jingles, more recent research suggests earworms are the result of an incomplete mental process. For example, shorter pieces of longer songs are a common source of earworms. Listening to the song in its entirety may even help remove the earworm.

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