This Is Your Brain on Music

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Multi-timescale nexting in a reinforcement learning robot (2011, background): “When we hear a melody we predict what the next note will be or when the next downbeat will occur, and are surprised and interested (or annoyed) when our predictions are disconﬁrmed (Huron 2006, Levitin 2006).”
How do “earworms” start? Classifying the everyday circumstances of Involuntary Musical Imagery (2012, background): “A less well studied type of musical imagery is that of spontaneous or involuntary musical imagery (INMI: Liikkanen, 2008), a phenomenon also dubbed “brain worms,” “sticky music” (Sacks, 2007), “cognitive itch” (Kellaris, 2008) and “stuck song syndrome” (Levitin, 2006).”