How to get rid of the songs, "stuck" in your head?

I am sure that everyone is familiar: the melody in his head got stuck and did not want to leave you. And, whether you like it or not, you can even hate this song, but to get rid of it is simply impossible. It remains to put up a long time listening to the haunting jukebox in your own head. But it turns out (hooray! hooray!), still have a way to disable this hurdy-gurdy.

By the way, pay attention that usually stick to the songs of which you know just a few lines? This is due to the so-called effect Zeigarnik, which is that people better remember the material related to any pending actions than with finished (Wikipedia). Here's how to get rid of obsessive advises tunes Dr. Ira Hyman, a psychologist at Western Washington University:

To head stopped sounding song, you need to adequately use their cognitive resources (mental abilities needed to perform various processing actions information). If you walk or drive behind the wheel, it remains in your head too much space, so starting to play your hurdy-gurdy. There is a downside: if you do something too complicated, what your brain is very difficult to handle, the melody comes back again. This means that you need to occupy yourself with something not too easy and not too difficult. Poreshat crossword puzzle or guess, for example. Naturally, each person will be different, and the studies themselves, and their level of difficulty. Or you can just relax and enjoy the music in your head.

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And finally, here are the top songs that, according to research, most often get stuck in my head:

Alejandro - Lady Gaga
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Call me Baby - Carly Rae Jepsen.
Single Ladies - Beyoncé
She Loves You - The Beatles
I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
SOS - Rihanna
You Belong with Me - Taylor Swift

Now if you are one of them began to sing, well, it's time to try out the method of disposal, and the results of share in the comments :)

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