Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration

Re:Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:21PM (#24629729)

The article is predictably coy about the fact that music is, well, bad for concentration. Studies tend to find that people work better in a quiet environment. [0]

The article is rather scattershot, with much of it having nothing to do with music.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2012-shih.pdf

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Re:Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration by gwern on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:27PM (#24631260)

The music distraction literature is really scattershot and heterogeneous, so you can pull out whatever subset you like. The best meta-analysis I know of is "The impact of background music on adult listeners: A meta-analysis" https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2011-kampfe.pdf , Kampfe et al 2011.

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Re:Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:31PM (#24641991)

Interesting, thanks for that.

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Re:Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration by victorkolb on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:50PM (#24630103)

Thanks for good paper! As far as I can tell, the paper says about compare two groups: first was listening music with lyrics and second was listening music without lyrics?

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Re:Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration by victorkolb on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:01PM (#24630235)

Sorry, my bad! Two groups also had performance score without background music.

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