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Reading: Music is as distracting as noise: the differential distraction of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts

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Ergonomics, 45:3, 203-217, 2002
Authors: Adrian Furham, Lisa Stbac

Main point:

An experiment with 33 male, 43 female, mean age about 17 y. Three conditions: silence, background music and background noise. Music and noise both diminish the study results. Introverts suffer a bit more. Music and noise were not significantly different from on another.

Read: Weinstein 1978 Individual differences in reaction to noise: a longitudinal study in a college dormitory