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From Mozart to Metallica, tons of people enjoy
listening to various types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Many
believe that music helps boost creativity, but an international study conducted
by English and Swedish researchers is challenging that belief. Their findings
indicate music actually stymies creativity.
To come to their conclusions, researchers had
participants complete verbal insight problems designed to inspire creativity
while sitting in a quiet room, and then again while music played in the
background. They found that background music "significantly damaged"
the participants' ability to complete tasks associated with verbal creativity.
The research team also tested background noises such as those commonly heard in
a library, but found that such noises had no impact on subjects' creativity.
The tasks were simple word games. For example, participants were given three
words, such as dress, dial, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single
word associated with all three that could be combined to form a common phrase
or word. The single word, in this case, would be "sun" (sundress,
sunflower, etc). Participants completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or
while exposed to three different types of music; music with unfamiliar lyrics,
instrumental music, or music with familiar lyrics.
From Mozart to Metallica, tons of people enjoy
listening to various types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Many
believe that music helps boost creativity, but an international study conducted
by English and Swedish researchers is challenging that belief. Their findings
indicate music actually stymies creativity.
To come to their conclusions, researchers had
participants complete verbal insight problems designed to inspire creativity
while sitting in a quiet room, and then again while music played in the
background. They found that background music "significantly damaged"
the participants' ability to complete tasks associated with verbal creativity.
The research team also tested background noises such as those commonly heard in
a library, but found that such noises had no impact on subjects' creativity.
The tasks were simple word games. For example, participants were given three
words, such as dress, dial, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single
word associated with all three that could be combined to form a common phrase
or word. The single word, in this case, would be "sun" (sundress,
sunflower, etc). Participants completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or
while exposed to three different types of music; music with unfamiliar lyrics,
instrumental music, or music with familiar lyrics.
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