The passage describes the experience of the author, who had a song stuck in her head and couldn't shake it off. She refers to this phenomenon as an "earworm," which is a term used to describe a song, melody, or jingle that gets stuck in someone's head. She tried different methods to get rid of it, such as listening to other songs or singing along, but nothing worked.
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The author then contacted Dr. Earworm, who is a marketing professor who studies earworms, and learned that earworms are involuntary musical imagery (INMI), and that people who experience them more often have a thinner right frontal cortex, which is involved in inhibition, and a thinner temporal cortex, which processes sensory stimuli like sound. The causes of earworms, however, are still a mystery.
Therefore, The author also learned that some people have a more severe form of earworm called intrusive musical imagery (IMI), which can be chronic and highly distracting to a person's everyday life and work, but she was assured that it is highly improbable for her earworm to turn into IMI.
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Reading Comprehension Passage C
Get That Song Outta My Head!
The nightmare began when my husband walked into our kitchen and said, “I've had this song stuck in my head all day.
No! I thought. Don't say it!
"Remember that song from the original Karate Kid movie?” he continued.
For the love of God, no!
"You know how it goes. 'You're the best around... na na na na na, na na na na. You're the best around ..."
It was too late. Now I had an earworm- a song, melody or jingle that gets stuck in your head.
The worst part? I only knew that same line. I walked around humming it for days. I tried to shake it by singing along with tunes playing on my car radio while I was out running errands. For a brief time, Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil" replaced it.
But in no time at all, that one line from "You're the Best," sung by Joe Esposito on the The Karate Kid soundtrack, was back.
Perhaps if I heard more of the song in my head, it wouldn't be as annoying. But just this one line? Over and over and over again? It was pure torture. I needed to do something drastic. I busted out that 1980s hit, "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats. After singing it a few times, the earworm was gone.
I knew I'd get another one, though. About 90 percent of people experience earworms at least once a week, according to the Earworm Project run by the Music, Mind and Brain group at Goldsmiths, University of London.
"Music lovers, specifically people who ascribe1 more importance to music or people who spend more time listening to music, have more frequent and longer earworm episodes," says Kelly Jakubowski, a researcher with the Earworm Project....
To find out what causes earworms and how to get rid of them, I contacted the man known as "Dr. Earworm," James Kellaris, a marketing professor at the University of Cincinnati. Certainly with a nickname like that, he would know something.
Kellaris began studying earworms in 1999. A former professional musician prone to getting earworms himself, he eventually became a marketing professor "interested in how marketers use music to achieve various commercial goals," he says. "It was a perfect storm to create an earworms researcher."
He explained to me that when we get an earworm, the tune seems to repeat itself involuntarily, which is why experts consider earworms involuntary musical imagery (INMI). This was exactly what "You're the Best" had done to me.
So what, precisely, was happening in my brain when I couldn't shake that tune?
Jakubowski contributed to a May 2015 study led by Nicolas Farrugia, a postdoctoral researcher with the Earworm Project, that demonstrated auditory and inhibitory-related areas play a role in earworms as well.
The researchers examined 44 healthy subjects, all between 25 and 70 years old and all participants of a past neuroimaging study run by the Cambridge Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. These subjects took an online survey that measured both the extent of their musical training and how strongly INMIs impacted them. For example, the survey wanted to know how strong of a negative impact INMIs had on them or if INMIS were actually helpful while they went about their everyday activities.
