Want to block earworms from conscious awareness? B(u)y gum! Article Accepted Version Beaman, C. P., Powell, K. and Rapley, E. (2015) Want to block earworms from conscious awareness? B(u)y gum! Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68 (6). pp. 1049-1057. ISSN 1747-0218 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1034142 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/40114/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . To link to this article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1034142 Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge) All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online Want to block earworms from conscious awareness? B(u)y gum! C. Philip Beaman1,2, Kitty Powell2, Ellie Rapley2 1Centre for Cognition Research, University of Reading 2School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading Running Head: BLOCKING EARWORMS Corresponding author: C. Philip Beaman, School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences University of Reading Earley Gate, Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AL UK Email:
[email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 118 3787637 Word Count: 3, 345 Keywords: Earworms, Auditory Imagery, Thought Suppression, Music Cognition, Short-Term Memory 1 Abstract Three experiments examine the role of articulatory motor planning in experiencing an involuntary musical recollection (an “earworm”).