If you’re an audiophile, beware choosing just any music when you’re writing—and listen to vocals sparingly.Source: Bruce Mars/Wikimedia Commons
This research, though involving youngsters, reflects decades of research on the impact of listening to music on adult cognitive performance: People doing cognitive tasks while listening to music—adults or children—have a tough time, and they often don’t realize it. Manuel Gonzalez and John Aiello at Baruch College and Rutgers conducted an experiment in which they had people perform simple verbal tasks—finding words in a list with specific letters. The people performed better while listening to music. But the story was the reverse for complex verbal tasks—remembering the second word of a word pair read earlier.
Gonzalez and Aiello at Baruch and Rutgers, who included both introverts and extraverts in their 2019 research, found mixed results, however. The capacity or people to listen and perform cognitively depended on the difficulty of the task. The results kicked up a media craze, and more than one news story in the 1990s promoted a thesis that overshot the data, dubbing the finding the “Mozart effect.” Small children, guided by their parents, were then led to believe that music had almost magical cognitive-enhancing powers.
Afterwards—after the music quit—the Eskine team asked people to perform 38 compound remote associates tasks . Each such CRAT challenges people to combine a set of three words given to them with a fourth of their own that goes with the initial three—more or less as prefixes or suffixes.
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