Want to block earworms from conscious awareness?
B(u)y gum!

REFERENCES

• Andrade, J., Kavanagh, D., & Baddeley, A. (1997). Eye-movements and visual imagery: A working memory approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 36, 209–223. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1997.tb01408.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baddeley, A. D. & Andrade, J. (2000). Working memory and the vividness of imagery. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 126–145. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.129.1.126
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beaman, C. P., & Williams, T. I. (2010). Earworms (“stuck song syndrome”): Towards a natural history of intrusive thoughts. British Journal of Psychology, 101, 637–653. doi: 10.1348/000712609X479636
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beaman, C. P., & Williams, T. I. (2013). Individual differences in mental control predict involuntary musical imagery. Musicae Scientiae, 17, 398–409. doi: 10.1177/1029864913492530
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bishop, D. V. M., & Robson, J. (1989). Unimpaired short-term memory and rhyme judgment in congenitally speechless individuals: Implications for the notion of “articulatory coding”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 123–140. doi: 10.1080/14640748908402356
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brewin, C. R., & Smart, L. (2005). Working memory capacity and the suppression of intrusive thoughts. Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry, 36, 61–68. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2004.11.006
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Emerson, M. J., & Miyake, A. (2003). The role of inner speech in task switching: A dual-task investigation. Journal of Memory & Language, 48, 148–168. doi: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00511-9
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evans, C. L., McGuire, P. K., & David, A. S. (2000). Is auditory imagery defective in patients with auditory hallucinations? Psychological Medicine, 30, 137–148. doi: 10.1017/S0033291799001555
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Exploratorium | The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception. (2015). Science of music: Why do some songs get stuck in my head? Retrieved April 8, 2015, from http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/questions/earworm.html
   Google Scholar
• Hubbard, T. L. (2010). Auditory imagery: Empirical findings. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 302–329. doi: 10.1037/a0018436
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hyman, I. E., Burland, N. K., Duskin, H. M., Cook, M. C., Roy, C. M., McGrath, J. C., & Roundhill, R. F. (2012). Going gaga: Investigating, creating and manipulating the song stuck in my head. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 204–215. doi: 10.1002/acp.2897
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kozlov, M. D., Hughes, R. W., & Jones, D. M. (2012). Gummed-up memory: Chewing gum impairs short-term recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 501–513. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.629054
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kvavilashvili, L., & Mandler, G. (2004). Out of one's mind: A study of involuntary semantic memories. Cognitive Psychology, 48, 47–94. doi: 10.1016/S0010-0285(03)00115-4
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liikkanen, L. A. (2012). Inducing involuntary musical imagery: An experimental study. Musicae Scientiae, 16, 217–234. doi: 10.1177/1029864912440770
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Macken, W. J., & Jones, D. M. (1995). Functional characteristics of the inner voice and the inner ear: Single or double agency? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 21, 436–448.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marsh, J. E., Beaman, C. P., Hughes, R. W., & Jones, D. M. (2012). Inhibitory control in memory: Evidence for negative priming in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 38, 1377–1388.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nairne, J. S. (1990). A feature model of immediate memory. Memory & Cognition, 18, 251–269. doi: 10.3758/BF03213879
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Poe, E. A. (1845/1938). The imp of the perverse. Reprinted in The complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Reisberg, D., Smith, J. D., Baxter, D. A., & Sonenshine, M. (1989). “Enacted” auditory images are ambiguous: “Pure” auditory images are not. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 619–641. doi: 10.1080/14640748908402385
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sacks, O. (2007). Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain. New York: Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, J. D. (1992). The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia. In D. Reisberg (Ed.), Auditory imagery (pp. 151–178). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, J. D., Wilson, M., & Reisberg, D. (1995). The role of subvocalization in auditory imagery. Neuropsychologia, 33, 1433–1454. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00074-D
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ten readers' cures for earworms (2012, March 9). BBC News Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17302237
   Google Scholar
• Twain, M. (1876/1878). A literary nightmare. Reprinted in Punch, brothers, punch! and other stories. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co.
   Google Scholar
• Wegner, D. (1994). Ironic processes of mental control. Psychological Review, 101, 34–52. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.101.1.34
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wegner, D. M., & Erber, R. (1992). The hyperaccessibility of suppressed thoughts. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 63, 903–912. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.63.6.903
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wegner, D. M., & Zanakos, S. (1994). Chronic thought suppression. Journal of Personality, 62, 615–640. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1994.tb00311.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wenzlaff, R. M., & Wegner, D. M. (2000). Thought suppression. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 59–91. doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.51.1.59
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar