Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and attention are wired. The same circuitry that helps you recognize a friend’s ...

Earworms, also known as involuntary musical imagery, are brief snippets of music that repetitively play in our minds. They can be as short as 15 to 30 seconds and often feel like they loop without end ...

While driving recently, a long-forgotten song came on the radio. I found myself singing along; not only did I know all the lyrics to a song I hadn't heard in 25 years or more, but I also managed to ...

The lyrics to Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” may say that “we don’t need no education” and that “we don’t need no thought control,” but that isn’t stopping scientists at a New York college ...

A group of researchers has published a new study detailing the extraction of a Pink Floyd song from someone's brain. The new study was published in the journal PLOS Biology and details work conducted ...