Why you can’t get that tune out of your head:
The many thousands of tunes most of us know, from arias to singles and jingles, are locked in a shifting pattern of neural circuits in a region just behind our foreheads, scientists say.
This part of the brain – the rostromedial prefrontal cortex – has complex functions relating to the link between data and the emotions, and, say the scientists, it may be the reason why melodies evoke memories.”