分散注意力
唤醒
警惕(心理学)
心理学
认知心理学
走神
精神运动警觉任务
沉默
任务(项目管理)
情感(语言学)
精神运动学习
听力学
认知
社会心理学
沟通
医学
睡眠剥夺
美学
管理
神经科学
经济
哲学
作者
Luca Kiss,Karina J. Linnell
标识
DOI:10.1007/s00426-020-01400-6
摘要
Abstract Although many people listen to music while performing tasks that require sustained attention, the literature is inconclusive about its effects. The present study examined performance on a sustained-attention task and explored the effect of background music on the prevalence of different attentional states, founded on the non-linear relationship between arousal and performance. Forty students completed a variation of the Psychomotor Vigilance Task —that has long been used to measure sustained attention—in silence and with their self-selected or preferred music in the background. We collected subjective reports of attentional state (specifically mind-wandering, task-focus and external distraction states) as well as reaction time (RT) measures of performance. Results indicated that background music increased the proportion of task-focus states by decreasing mind-wandering states but did not affect external distraction states. Task-focus states were linked to shorter RTs than mind-wandering or external distraction states; however, background music did not reduce RT or variability of RT significantly compared to silence. These findings show for the first time that preferred background music can enhance task-focused attentional states on a low-demanding sustained-attention task and are compatible with arousal mediating the relationship between background music and task-performance.
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