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Music Listening Near Bedtime Disruptful to Sleep, Baylor Study Finds
Participants for the experimental study were monitored during sleep to determine if earworms had an impact on nighttime sleep physiology (Robert Rogers/Baylor University)
Michael Scullin, Ph.D., director of Baylor University’s Sleep Neuroscience and Cognition Laboratory, led a study on the impact of earworms on sleep (Matthew Minard/Baylor University)
Baylor sleep researcher Michael Scullin finds “earworms” continue during sleep, can cause restless nights
WACO, Texas (June 9, 2021) – Most people listen to music throughout their day and often near bedtime to wind down. But can that actually cause your sleep to suffer? When sleep researcher Michael Scullin, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University, realized he was waking in the middle of the night with a song stuck in his head, he saw an opportunity to study how music and particularly stuck songs might a