Chewing gum may help get songs stuck in your head. A university study found that people who chewed gum after hearing catchy songs reported thinking about the song less and "hearing" it less in their head than those who did not chew gum. The act of chewing gum seems to interfere with short-term memory and inner speech, which could reduce unwanted and intrusive thoughts, including earworm songs. More research is needed to see if chewing gum could help reduce symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and similar conditions.

1. To get rid of the song stuck in
your head, just chew gum
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Got a song stuck in your head?
Chewing gum may help.
Chewing gum could turn off annoying earworms -catchy tunes that repeat in
your head -according to a first of its kind study.
The study from the University of Reading found that people who chewed
gum after hearing catchy songs thought less often about the song than in a
control condition.
Chewing gum also reduced the amount they `heard' the song by one third.
Previous research has found that mouthing something to yourself, or even
just moving your jaw around, interferes both with short-term memory and
imagining sounds.
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This study , however, is the first to examine what effect chewing gum has on
ear worms. As well as helping those who suffer badly from earworms, the
results suggest gum-chewing might help reduce other un wanted or intrusive
thoughts -especially ones you `hear'.
“The earworm phenomenon stretches back at least to the 19th century -
Edgar Al lan Poe and Mark Twain both referenced the experience in well-
known works,“ said Dr Phil Beaman, from the University's School of
Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, who led the study .
“The majority of us experience them for only short periods -perhaps just a
few minutes -but others can experience them for two or three days which
can be extremely frustrating and debilitating.
“We wanted to explore whether a simple act like chewing gum could help,“
he said.
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Ninety-eight volunteers took part in the study . After playing them the catchy
tunes Play Hard by David Guetta and Payphone by Maroon 5, researchers
asked them to try not to think of the songs they had just heard over the next
three minutes but to hit a key each time they did.
“In the chewing gum condition, volunteers reported thinking of and `hearing'
the song less often than in no-activity and finger tapping control conditions,“
Beaman said.
Beaman said this type of activity could reduce other intrusive thoughts.
“Interfering with our own `inner speech' through a more sophisticated
version of the gum-chewing approach may work more widely ,. However
more research is needed to see whether this will help counter symptoms of
obsessive-compulsive and similar disorders,“ he said.
The study was published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology .
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