Scientists have discovered what makes a tune catchy by pinpointing the precise part of the brain where a song's "hook" gets caught.
A team from Dartmouth College at Hanover in New Hampshire discovered that it is the auditory cortex - the area that handles information from the ears - that holds on to musical memories.
Researchers played music to volunteers using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imagery and scanned their brains. As the music was played, parts of the tune were cut.
Researchers found volunteers mentally filled in the blanks for a familiar song with missing snippets, though the same effect was not seen with unfamiliar tunes.
A team from Dartmouth College at Hanover in New Hampshire discovered that it is the auditory cortex - the area that handles information from the ears - that holds on to musical memories.
Researchers played music to volunteers using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imagery and scanned their brains. As the music was played, parts of the tune were cut.
Researchers found volunteers mentally filled in the blanks for a familiar song with missing snippets, though the same effect was not seen with unfamiliar tunes.
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