The auditory cortex appears to be responsible for helping you
remember the missing parts of songs and for making
songs get stuck in your head. The BBC reports that researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging measured brain activity while playing songs to human subjects. When brief gaps
were left in songs that the subject was familiar with the
auditory cortex helped the subject "remember" the gaps.
If an unfamiliar song was played with gaps the auditory
cortex did not help. Scientists believe this could mean that
the auditory cortex plays a role in audio storage as well
as the original processing of incoming sounds.
