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| Title |
Rapid Communication: Want to block earworms from conscious awareness? B(u)y gum!
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| Published in |
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1080/17470218.2015.1034142 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
C. Philip Beaman, Kitty Powell, Ellie Rapley |
| Abstract |
Three experiments examine the role of articulatory motor planning in experiencing an involuntary musical recollection (an "earworm"). Experiment 1 shows that interfering with articulatory motor programming by chewing gum reduces both the number of voluntary and the number of involuntary-unwanted-musical thoughts. This is consistent with other findings that chewing gum interferes with voluntary processes such as recollections from verbal memory, the interpretation of ambiguous auditory images, and the scanning of familiar melodies, but is not predicted by theories of thought suppression, which assume that suppression is made more difficult by concurrent tasks or cognitive loads. Experiment 2 shows that chewing the gum affects the experience of "hearing" the music and cannot be ascribed to a general effect on thinking about a tune only in abstract terms. Experiment 3 confirms that the reduction of musical recollections by chewing gum is not the consequence of a general attentional or dual-task demand. The data support a link between articulatory motor programming and the appearance in consciousness of both voluntary and unwanted musical recollections. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 117 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 15 | 13% |
| United States | 9 | 8% |
| Spain | 7 | 6% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Germany | 4 | 3% |
| France | 3 | 3% |
| Belgium | 2 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 9% |
| Unknown | 56 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 90 | 77% |
| Scientists | 13 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 10 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 84 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 81 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 15% |
| Researcher | 7 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 12% |
| Unknown | 21 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 33 | 39% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 13 | 15% |
| Unknown | 21 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 805. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 January 2024.
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