Sentences with phrase «earworms in»

The researchers asked 3,000 people to name their most frequent earworm tunes and compared these to tunes that had never been named as earworms in the database but were a match in terms of popularity and how recently they had been in the United Kingdom music charts.

Kellaris began studying earworms in 1999.

The song became an earworm in my head while driving the 2019 Volvo V60 T6 AWD.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, a court in Los Angeles agreed that Thicke and Pharrell Williams» 2013 earworm «Blurred Lines» borrowed too heavily from Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit «Got to Give it Up.»

Frozen director Jennifer Lee was recently interviewed in The Hollywood Reporter, and she offered a funny anecdote about Disney's most notorious earworm, «Let It Go.»

In particular, researchers analyzed 21 years of data from Maryland cornfields and suggest that rising temperatures might help corn earworms (Helicoverpa zea) develop resistance faster to a widespread genetically built - in crop protectioIn particular, researchers analyzed 21 years of data from Maryland cornfields and suggest that rising temperatures might help corn earworms (Helicoverpa zea) develop resistance faster to a widespread genetically built - in crop protectioin crop protection.

Yet, fruit flies rarely interact with the fungus in the wild — pests like the corn earworm caterpillar are much bigger threats — so it's unclear how applicable these results are to the real world, says Marko Rohlfs, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bremen in Germany who was not involved in the study.

Having a song, tune, or commercial jingle stuck in one's head is a phenomenon known as having an earworm.

When they examined these participants» brain images, one pattern in particular stuck out: People who got earworms more often had a thinner right frontal cortex, which is involved in inhibition, and a thinner temporal cortex, which processes sensory stimuli like sound.

The bollworm, commonly found in Australia, attacks more crops and develops much more resistance to pesticides than the earworm.

Jakubowski contributed to a May 2015 study led by Nicolas Farrugia, a postdoctoral researcher with the Earworm Project, that demonstrated auditory and inhibitory - related areas play a role in earworms as well.

What about «earworms,» the songs that get stuck in our heads?

Hutchison says that another species, the corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea), has evolved resistance to Bttoxin in situations where GM - crop coverage is 100 %.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

In a warmer world, the corn earworm may evolve resistance faster to Bt corn, a crop that has been genetically modified to produce an insect - killing toxin, researchers propose.

Field - evolved resistance in corn earworm to Cry proteins expressed by transgenic sweet corn.

Climate change, transgenic corn adoption and field - evolved resistance in corn earworm.

In addition to «Bad Romance,» examples of common earworms named in the study include «Don't Stop Believing» by Journey and, perhaps not surprisingly, «Can't Get You Out Of My Head» by Kylie MinoguIn addition to «Bad Romance,» examples of common earworms named in the study include «Don't Stop Believing» by Journey and, perhaps not surprisingly, «Can't Get You Out Of My Head» by Kylie Minoguin the study include «Don't Stop Believing» by Journey and, perhaps not surprisingly, «Can't Get You Out Of My Head» by Kylie Minogue.

Studies of earworms can help to understand how brain networks, which are involved in perception, emotions, memory and spontaneous thoughts, behave in different people, the authors said.

Thanks to my husband who introduced Grease 1 & 2 to our kids earlier this summer, this song has been on an almost constant earworm loop in my head the last few weeks.

Through repeated viewings and earworm quotes, they create My List of Best Romantic Comedy Korean Drama - Most Recommended, My List of Best Romantic Comedy Korean Drama in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - Most

«A MILLION DREAMS» — Just as much of an earworm and right in line with the Broadway feel of all the others.

But it more than stands on its own, thanks to its thoughtful coming - of - age story rooted in South Pacific folklore, a fun performance from Dwayne Johnson, and its earworm - y songs by Lin - Manuel Miranda and Opetaia.

Plus, Justin Timberlake is practically a shoo - in for Best Original Song for his poppy earworm «Can't Stop the Feeling!»

For the second year in a row, we have a rousing earworm from a Disney film — last year Moana's «How Far I'll Go,» this year Coco's «Remember Me» — up against the wunderkind duo of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who won last year for La La Land's «City of Stars,» went on to win two Tonys and a Grammy for Dear Evan Hansen, and are now back with «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman.

Almost as much of an earworm as the «dog in a trenchcoat» version.

When: May 15th Why: The first film was one of the surprise hits of 2012, growing in popularity once it arrived on home video and the earworm «Cups» dominated the radio.

There are some heavy hitters in the competition this year, many of them, as usual, coming from Disney and Pixar — Tim Rice and Alan Menken, the team behind «Evermore,» also brought us «A Whole New World,» and the Coco team of Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote the earworm of the century with «Let It Go.»

Not a single person on Gold Derby is predicting «The Star,» but hear me out: the mailer to promote the film, in which the song automatically plays when you open it, has proven what an incredible earworm the song is.

Oh, well, there are bigger challenges in life than earworms, although I can't think of very many at the moment.

The downside is the «earworm» sticking in your head, so you may want to save this music for when you're not home.

Throw in a soundtrack of solid gold earworms and hundreds of hours of hypnotic side quests, and by the time you're done with this, your body will have sprouted a few grassy fields of its own.

The soundtrack is replete with exhilarating battle themes, but I purchased my copy in the hopes that I could finally purge my brain of the earworm that is the

That's a huge deal, given that the article points out that corn earworms destroy 2 % of the corn crop in the U.S.

But the estimates of «one to seven years» means that there will be no periods in the 21st century when temperatures are low enough to keep the corn earworm from damaging crops.

For example, temperatures in Iowa, the top US corn producing state, were suitable for corn earworm survival in zero to three years of every 24 years in the 20th Century.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72