O Positive's "Weight of Days" has been in my head since it was playing when I last dropped you off, and it resumed after I stopped at Trader Joe's to buy split turkey breast. When was that -- last Tuesday?
You recall that I had the theme from Buffy the Vampire Slayer stuck for about two weeks after we watched the Halloween episode.
Psychological experiment that needs to be done:
1) Equip a whole bunch of people* with a device which chimes once an hour or so. 2) When the device chimes, they write down the song that is playing in their head, if any. 3) Lather, rinse, repeat for several weeks. 4) Compile statistics such as percentage of time any song is playing, persistence of average song, etc. 5) Correlate above data to exhaustive and innovative personality inventory (including cognitive styles).** 6) Extra credit: analyze styles of music stuck in head and do the same. 7) Extra credit: keep track of the circumstances of the prior exposure to the songs to try to figure out what makes them stick. I note that I heard both the Buffy theme and "Weight of Days" two separate times, with 20-30 minutes in between exposures and no other songs intervening (although there was soundtrack music and perhaps store muzak, respectively).
*Traditionally, it's the sophomores taking Psych 101 at some university, but this sample is probably hugely biased in favor of various cognitive / personality types, particularly Jungian Intuitive types. Proper research would make an effort to make the sample conform to the populace at large.
** Or, rather, the exhaustive and innovative personality inventory (basically every psych test known to man) I dream of doing on a whole bunch of people would include this.
I would be very curious to see the correlations to working memory size and attentive style. I have always assumed that the continual soundtrack is part of the same makeup that allows deep concentrated thought while, say, preparing dinner, or the ability to attend to a conversation while, say, scanning text.
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You recall that I had the theme from Buffy the Vampire Slayer stuck for about two weeks after we watched the Halloween episode.
Psychological experiment that needs to be done:
1) Equip a whole bunch of people* with a device which chimes once an hour or so.
2) When the device chimes, they write down the song that is playing in their head, if any.
3) Lather, rinse, repeat for several weeks.
4) Compile statistics such as percentage of time any song is playing, persistence of average song, etc.
5) Correlate above data to exhaustive and innovative personality inventory (including cognitive styles).**
6) Extra credit: analyze styles of music stuck in head and do the same.
7) Extra credit: keep track of the circumstances of the prior exposure to the songs to try to figure out what makes them stick. I note that I heard both the Buffy theme and "Weight of Days" two separate times, with 20-30 minutes in between exposures and no other songs intervening (although there was soundtrack music and perhaps store muzak, respectively).
*Traditionally, it's the sophomores taking Psych 101 at some university, but this sample is probably hugely biased in favor of various cognitive / personality types, particularly Jungian Intuitive types. Proper research would make an effort to make the sample conform to the populace at large.
** Or, rather, the exhaustive and innovative personality inventory (basically every psych test known to man) I dream of doing on a whole bunch of people would include this.
I would be very curious to see the correlations to working memory size and attentive style. I have always assumed that the continual soundtrack is part of the same makeup that allows deep concentrated thought while, say, preparing dinner, or the ability to attend to a conversation while, say, scanning text.