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Informative Speech On Earworms

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Do you ever have a day when a short snippet of a song is constantly stuck in your head? Not the whole song, but a fragment of it that plays and replays in your mind. You have been struck by what is commonly known as earworm. Studies show that earworms make their way into heads of about 90 percent of people at least once a week. They tend to burrow in tasks that don't require much attention such as waiting at a traffic light or sitting in class. Scientists do not know exactly why it is so easy for our favorite tunes to get stuck in our heads. Ear worms are an example of mental imagery. This imagery can be auditory or visual. Earworms are a special form of auditory imagery because they're involuntarily. Meaning you don't plug your ears and try
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