Oliver Sacks - Musicophila - Brainworms

Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the concept of “brainworms“, why certain songs and bits of music seem to lodge themselves in our brains. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Dr. Sacks’s latest book. For more information, visit or