Daniel Müllensiefen

Daniel Müllensiefen

Daniel Müllensiefen is a researcher and co-author of the 2017 melody comparison.

Who they are

The work of Daniel Müllensiefen reaches this site through the paper listed below. The name is tied to Involuntary Musical Imagery.

Key papers

Jakubowski, K., Finkel, S., Stewart, L., & Müllensiefen, D. (2017). Dissecting an earworm: Melodic features and song popularity predict involuntary musical imagery. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(2), 122-135. What it reports: About 3,000 survey participants. Songs reported as earworms had more UK chart success. 100 earworm tunes compared with style-matched tunes never reported: shared common global melodic contours, smaller average gradients between turning points, faster tempi.

Key ideas

Involuntary Musical Imagery: A tune that replays in the mind without being called up, commonly known as an earworm.

Sources

  1. Jakubowski, K., Finkel, S., Stewart, L., & Müllensiefen, D. (2017). Dissecting an earworm: Melodic features and song popularity predict involuntary musical imagery. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(2), 122-135.