Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Director, Music Cognition Lab; Author, "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
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Atlas Obscura: The Science Behind Why Holiday Jingles Get Stuck in Our Heads

Elizabeth Margulis December 22, 2015

When a song gets stuck in our head, the trigger could be anything. The scent of freshly baked holiday cookies. The sight of a Christmas tree glowing with lights. The ambient melody of the dreidel song blasting from the windows of a Mitzvah tank as it barrels passed you on the street, filling Brooklyn with echoes of Hanukkah music. Read more >

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Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Director, Music Cognition Lab; Author, "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is the director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas and author of "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind" from Oxford University Press.