Try getting Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" out of your head. Picture: AP Source: AP
EVER had a catchy tune play on an endless loop in your head?
A song that you just can't get out of your head? Well now, you can.
Sciencists claim to have found a way to expel them from your thoughts. For good.
According to a team of US music experts, the best way to force intrusive music out of your working memory is by solving some tricky anagrams or reading a good book, the UK's Telegraph reports.
"The key is to find something that will give the right level of challenge," said Dr Ira Hyman, a music psychologist at Western Washington University who conducted the research. "If you are cognitively engaged, it limits the ability of intrusive songs to enter your head.
"Something we can do automatically like driving or walking means you are not using all of your cognitive resource, so there is plenty of space left for that internal jukebox to start playing.
"Likewise, if you are trying something too hard, then your brain will not be engaged successfully, so that music can come back. You need to find that bit in the middle where there is not much space left in the brain. That will be different for each individual.
"It is like a Goldilocks effect – it can't be too easy and it can’t be too hard, it has got to be just right."
Dr Hyman now hopes to examine whether similar techniques could be used to prevent other intrusive thoughts caused by anxiety or obsessiveness.
Some of the catchy songs used by the researchers:
Alejandro – Lady Gaga
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Call me Baby – Carly Rae Jepsen.
Single Ladies – Beyoncé
She Loves You – The Beatles
I Wanna Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
She Loves You – The Beatles
SOS – Rihanna
You Belong with Me – Taylor Swift
NB: Where's Kylie's hit Can't Get You Out Of My Head ??
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