Why are we so easily brainwashed by Divine Comedy?

Scientists reveal the root of brainwashing of Divine Comedy: "Earworm"

In the west, this phenomenon is called "ear worm": the mind is full of the melody of a song, and the mouth can't help humming, and it follows wherever it goes.

According to the data of the International Conference on Music Understanding and Cognition, 965,438+0% people experience "ear worms going to the brain" at least once a week, and a quarter of them do this every day, usually lasting eight seconds each time.

Scientists are also puzzled by this phenomenon, but it is very difficult to study it because there is no way to determine when a person will be brainwashed by Divine Comedy.

David P, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at new york University, said that the so-called ear worm attack has many reasons: memory, special environment and even accidental environmental stimulation. He thinks it may be that a place or a situation can arouse people's strong feelings and make people suddenly think of a song.

However, some researchers believe that the environment is not the first important stimulus.

Elizabeth margolis is the director of the Music Perception Laboratory at the University of Arkansas. She believes that the otoworm phenomenon may be related to how music affects the motor cortex of the human brain. When people listen to music, the activity in this area of the human brain will increase. Although people may still sit there motionless, their thoughts are already "moving".

Listening to a song repeatedly can also "breed" ear worms. On the whole, only 10% of the time spent listening to songs is listening to new songs. When a song is listened to four or five times or more, most people are familiar with the tune and can perceive what notes are followed by a note.

James clarice of the University of Cincinnati studies the influence of music on memory. He believes that the structure of music is the key factor to determine the "brainwashing index". Undeniably, those simple repetitive and even some "discordant" tunes are more familiar to the public, which is what people usually call "catchy".

Researchers from the Department of Applied Science and Art at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland analyzed more than 50 popular songs, and the tunes mentioned by different people more than three times were identified as "ear worms". The results show that the notes in Otto's tunes usually have long beats and short intervals, which may not be realized by people who don't know the knowledge of music theory. These two characteristics are very easy for artists to understand, that is, music with these two characteristics is less difficult and easier to sing.

The researchers also found that when people are tired, stressed or in a daze, they are easy to sing in their minds. People with neuroticism and mild obsessive-compulsive disorder are more likely to get ear worms and last longer.

Usually, some ideas in these people's minds are repetitive. Earworm is the brain singing, and it is not difficult for obsessive-compulsive patients to sing a song repeatedly.