Ear Worms Are a Musical Form of Unwanted Thoughts

Professor daniel merlinsefen is director of the master's course on music, mind and brain at goldsmith's college in london. There has been a general move towards investigating phenomena that are not golf focused or target oriented. What actually does the mind do with all this spare time and capacity when we are not engaging it with a targetat exercise? If we understand the mechanisms why it happens in which situation and to whom, we might be able to put people in a position to control their unwonted thoughts better.