20 Oct 2025

The science of earworms

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 20 October 2025

More than 90 percent of the population experience earworms, and researchers are beginning to understand how they work, why they happen, what they tell us about the brain, and even how to get rid of them - if you want to

Professor Emery Schubert is based at the Empirical Musicology Laboratory at the University of New South Wales and he joins Emile Donovan.

Portrait of a happy man listening to the music with smart phone walking in the street

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