辣妹"Wannebe"：全球最洗脑神曲

If you really wanna get a song stuck in your head, you gotta get with my friends the Spice Girls. The group's 1996 debut single "Wannabe" is the world's catchiest song, researchers in Holland say.

The University of Amsterdam has partnered with Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry to study what makes music so meMorable. They recently launched Hooked on Music, an online interactive game that asks people to identify songs as quickly as possible BAsed on a short clip.

Turns out people recognize "Wannabe" in an average of 2.29 seconds, according to the BBC.

If you made the mistake of Googling the song just now, you know it's easy to get part of it stuck in your head, even if you don't particularly enjoy the music. Scientists call these self-repeating song loops "ear worms." But they don't know much yet about why they happen -- and how they're affecting your brain.

Music: It's in your head, changing your brain

More than 20,000 people have played Hooked on Music, the Dutch researchers say. Results from the first batch of data collected will be released this weekend at the Manchester Science Festival. The scientists hope their research will lead to breakthroughs for dementia and Alzheimer's patients.

"There has already been some research that shows that if you can find the right piece of music, something that had a very strong meaning, playing that piece of music can be very therapeutic," computational musicologist John Ashley Burgoyne told the BBC. "The challenge is figuring out what is the best piece of music."

The top 10 catchiest songs, according to the Hooked on Music experiment, are:

1. Spice Girls, "Wannabe"

2. Lou Bega, "Mambo No. 5"

3. Survivor, "Eye of the Tiger"

4. Lady Gaga, "Just Dance"

5. ABBA, "SOS"

6. Roy Orbison, "Pretty Woman"

7. Michael Jackson, "Beat It"

8. Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You"

9. The Human League, "Don't You Want Me"

10. Aerosmith, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

Warning: These ear worms may come with some zig-a-zig-ah.荷兰研究人员表示，如果你特别希望有一首歌在脑海里挥之不去，那你可以去听听我的朋友辣妹组合（Spice Girls）于1996年推出的首支单曲《Wannabe》，这是世界上最朗朗上口的一首歌。

近日，阿姆斯特丹大学（The University of Amsterdam）与曼彻斯特科学工业博物馆（Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry）合作研究为什么有些音乐听了就忘不掉。他们使用了一款在线互动游戏——“迷上音乐”（Hooked on Music），邀请人们听一段音乐然后迅速分辨这首歌。

英国广播电视台（BBC）表示，人们分辨出《Wannabe》这首歌的时间平均为2.29秒。

如果你不小心现在就去谷歌搜索这首歌，你会发现，即使你并不喜欢这首歌，部分旋律仍然会在你的脑海里挥之不去。科学家们将这些自动循环播放的音乐片段称为“耳虫”，但他们仍不清楚产生这种现象的原因，以及它是如何影响人们的大脑。脑海中的音乐会改变你的思维。

荷兰研究人员称，已有2万多人玩过“迷上音乐”这款游戏。收集到的第一批数据将于这周末在曼彻斯特科学节上公布结果。科学家们希望这项研究能给痴呆症和老年痴呆症患者带来突破性的进展。

计算音乐学家约翰·阿什利·伯戈因（John Ashley Burgoyne）接受英国广播电视台采访表示，许多研究表明，如果能找到一首富有深度的歌曲，听听这首歌将有利于人们的健康。我们的挑战是弄清楚那首歌是什么。

以下是“迷上音乐”选出的全球十大最朗朗上口的歌曲：

1. Spice Girls——"Wannabe"

2. Lou Bega——"Mambo No. 5"

3. Survivor——"Eye of the Tiger"

4. Lady Gaga——"Just Dance"

5. ABBA——"SOS"

6. Roy Orbison——"Pretty Woman"

7. Michael Jackson——"Beat It"

8. Whitney Houston——"I Will Always Love You"

9. The Human League——"Don't You Want Me"

10. Aerosmith——"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

温馨提示：这些“耳虫”会在你的脑袋里反复出没。