Why you can't get that tune out of your head   *   Dec 13, 2002

Neuroscientist shows that the part of the brain that processes music is also related to memory and to the link between emotion and information. So ... that's why you can't get that tune out of your head.

More on this story:

Music on One's Mind

Group Finds Brain Center for Liking Music

(It's interesting to see the somewhat-different emphasis in each of these articles.)

And some more by Petr Janata, the researcher: Peer-reviewed publications (love that URL: http://atonal.dartmouth.edu/~petr/ )

Posted by Jone Johnson Lewis at 08:18 AM

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