Fast and loud background music disrupts reading comprehension

By W. F. Thompson, E. G. Schellenberg, Adriana Katharine Letnic. 2012

199 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Music, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/92ab860d73b0dc04e859d517491ba2851bad2489

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Citations in the corpus

• Background music can aid second language learning (2014, background): “The presence of music in any cognitive task represents a double-edged sword: music can significantly interfere with cognitive performance especially when that music is high in complexity and loudness (Kämpfe et al., 2010; Schellenberg, 2012; Thompson et al., 2012); however, the presence of low compl”