Tinnitus Clinic

Why is this song stuck in my head? The psychology of the earworm experience
2025-11-03 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
Dr Kelly Jakubowski talks about her research on the spontaneous mental recall and repetition of music in the ‘mind’s ear’, known as involuntary musical imagery or ‘earworms’, is a frequent and ubiquitous experience in the Western world. Despite its widespread prevalence, psychological enquiry into the mechanisms underlying the earworm experience is relatively recent. Over the past decade and a half, she and other researchers have begun to unpack the common triggers of earworm episodes and the contexts in which earworms most likely to occur, individual differences in personality, musical background, and cognitive styles that predict earworm frequency and reactions to earworms, and effective strategies for alleviating unwanted earworms. Dr Kelly Jakubowski’s research has also uncovered specific musical features that predict whether a song is likely to become an earworm, and how features of earworm songs impact our everyday moods and activities. Beyond the conception of earworms an “uninvited visitors” in our minds, recent research has also begun to reveal how earworms might play a functional role in our lives, providing new insights into how inner music interacts with other cognitive processes like memory, attention, and emotion.

1st International Seminar on Emotional and Sensory Experiences in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
2025-11-14
The aim of this seminar is to explore different aspects of emotional and sensory experiences in children with ASD ranging from problems in emotion identification and regulation ability to dysfunctional processing of sensory information from different systems in their body such as tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, auditory, gustatory, and olfactory. The focus of the seminar is to help the participants to better understand the needs of this population, learn about the technological, medical and therapeutic support available, and highlight the directions for future research and development.

This event is suitable for occupational therapists (OT), teachers, managers of health and educational services for children, general practitioners (GP), policy makers, relevant charities, social workers, psychologists, audiologists, paediatricians, any other interested health-and social-care professionals and parents of children with ASD. This seminar brings together studies of OT, mental health, neuroscience, audiology, neurology, and other areas. A wide range of presentations are planned which offer practical guide for improving your services for children with ASD.

Work absence and ability in people with tinnitus and hyperacusis
2025-12-01 19:00 - 20:00
🎤 Patient Education Event
Tinnitus, Hyperacusis and Work: What the Research Shows🗓 1st December 2025 | 🕖 7–8 PM (UK Time)👥 With Kaia Ringstad Andreassen & Guri Engernes Nielsen🎙 Hosted by Joanna Barker
How do tinnitus and hyperacusis affect people at work? Join us for an insightful session exploring new research from Norwegian hearing clinics, revealing that over 60% of adults with these conditions report reduced work ability—and hyperacusis plays a key role.
This talk highlights:

The impact of sound sensitivity on different jobs
Why hyperacusis matters more than we realise
Practical implications for workplace support

Free and open to all. Join us live for this important conversation.
