Background Music and Cognitive Performance
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- 1 June 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 110 (3_suppl) , 1059-64
Abstract
The present experiment employed standardized test batteries to assess the effects of fast-tempo music on cognitive performance among 56 male and female university students. A linguistic processing task and a spatial processing task were selected from the Criterion Task Set developed to assess verbal and nonverbal performance. Ten excerpts from Mozart's music matched for tempo were selected. Background music increased the speed of spatial processing and the accuracy of linguistic processing. The findings suggest that background music can have predictable effects on cognitive performance.Keywords
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