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New Research on Music in the Work Place

April 26, 2011

Dr. Anneli Haake spent the last 6 years studying the effect of music on office workers in the UK; her results were published in the academic journal Musicae Scientiae in March earlier this year. For those of us not familiar with reading large scientific texts, we asked Annelli to give us a lay person’s overview [...]

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Musical Beats Enhance Visual Comprehension

May 17, 2010
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Came across this study through a post by Tom Jacobs over on Miller-McCune that referenced the original study here. Here’s the Abstract: The present study investigated whether and how a musical rhythm entrains a listener’s visual attention. To this end, participants were presented with pictures of faces and houses and indicated whether picture orientation was [...]

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The Effect Of Music Listening On Work Performance

November 14, 2008

When music2work2 was still somewhat in the planning stages, we decided to do some research and see if others felt as we do that “music is good for you.” Andrew’s psychology degree influenced his thinking on this and you can read the write up of his final year dissertation here – Why listening to music [...]

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