Oliver Sacks - Musicophila - Brainworms
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Uploaded by knopfgroup on Oct 8, 2007
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the concept of "brainworms", why certain songs and bits of music seem to lodge themselves in our brains. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Dr. Sacks's latest book. For more information, visit http://www.oliversacks.com or http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400033539
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He's so right, fascinating!
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I would advise the opposite. Listen to what the tune has to say. It is a message from your subconscious!
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Professor Sacks says it happens with music only, not with words... But I must say that I've had a few brainworms "made of" words... At the moment I can remember only one of them - it was "angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors" (as I'm a huge "House MD" fan ;) ). These words kept on repeating themselves in my head for a few days just in the same way the tunes do. Sometimes I also have a very similar feeling about some poems. I can hear them in my mind and feel the need to repeat them aloud =]
8 months ago 3
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Wonderful man.
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Correct. It's called classical conditioning, like Pavlov's dogs only the conditioned response is negative.
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I had to laugh while listening, because it reminded me of the episode of "The Office" where Andy cannot remember the words to, "Gimme a break, gimme a break; break me off a piece of that _____." and Jim saying, "DON'T TELL HIM!"
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Fully Licensed! Fully JEWISH! JEEEWISH!
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He's Jewish.
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I had to work on brain and music for my studies in psychology, and i found this book particulary empty....
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He looks a bit like ghadi and santa's lovechild.
jobezef 1 year ago 7
Ohrwurm ;-)
Pacifica93 3 years ago 6