ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults.
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- Exploratory Listening Through Background Music: Psychological Predictors of Everyday Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of a piano music listening intervention on depression, academic burnout, and mindfulness: evidence from a randomized controlled trial among Chinese university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Listening in a noisy world: The impact of acoustic cues and background music on speech perception in autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- The sonic energy of background music impacts cognitive performances: a behavioral and physiological investigation.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Targeting Cognition and Behavior Post-Stroke: Combined Emotional Music Stimulation and Virtual Attention Training in a Quasi-Randomized Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The role of mood and arousal in the effect of background music on attentional state and performance during a sustained attention task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Exploring the influence of music on cognitive performance in female assembly line workers at a medical device manufacturing unit.PloS one · 2024Article
- The effects of self-selected background music and task difficulty on task engagement and performance in a visual vigilance task.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Effect of Noise Interference on Work Competency and Coping Styles in Specialist Nurses of Central Sterile Supply Departments.Noise & healthArticle
- Differential associations of leisure music engagement with resilience: A network analysis.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Daily activities can often be performed while listening to music, which could influence the ability to select relevant stimuli while ignoring distractors. Previous studies have established that the level of arousal of music (e.g., relaxing/stimulating) has the ability to modulate mood and affect the performance of cognitive tasks. The aim of this research was to explore the effect of relaxing and stimulating background music on selective attention. To this aim, 46 healthy adults performed a Stroop-type task in five different sound environments: relaxing music, stimulating music, relaxing music-matched noise, stimulating music-matched noise, and silence. Results showed that response times for incongruent and congruent trials as well as the Stroop interference effect were similar across conditions. Interestingly, results revealed a decreased error rate for congruent trials in the relaxing music condition as compared to the relaxing music-matched noise condition, and a similar tendency between relaxing music and stimulating music-matched noise. Taken together, the absence of difference between background music and silence conditions suggest that they have similar effects on adult's selective attention capacities, while noise seems to have a detrimental impact, particularly when the task is easier cognitively. In conclusion, the type of sound stimulation in the environment seems to be a factor that can affect cognitive tasks performance.
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