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Background music interferes with the creative process

26.02.2019

Researchers from the University of Central Lancashire, the University of Lancaster (UK) and the University of Gävle (Sweden) investigated how background music affects the quality of performance of tasks related to "linguistic creativity". They found that background music "significantly impairs" people's creative thinking levels.

An experiment helped scientists come to this conclusion. Its participants were shown three words: "dress", "dial", "flower" (dress, dial, flower) - and they had to find one word (in this case, "sun", sun), which can be combined with the three above to form a new word or phrase: "sundress", "sundial" and "sunflower" (sundress, sundial and sunflower).

During this task, different music played in the background. In the first case - a song with lyrics in a foreign language, in the second - instrumental music without words, in the third - a song in the native language.

Dr Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University said: "We have found compelling evidence that human performance is impaired when music is played in the background." It does not matter if there is text in it and in what language it is. The researchers suggest that this may be due to the fact that music impairs verbal working memory.

It is noteworthy that the participants in the experiment performed equally well when there was no extraneous noise in the background or when they were surrounded only by the noise of the library. This is because, psychologists say, library noise is a "steady state" of the environment that is not so destructive.

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