The effect of non-traumatic audible stress on learning of two motor skills

Ability to learn two motor tasks while exposed to a continuous 1000-Hz tone of 105 db was compared with learning the tasks without noise. While wearing earphones, half of 40 subjects learned the stabilometer task while the noise was presented and learned the ring-peg task with no noise. The other half had the reverse procedure. For college age men, learning motor skills was not adversely affected by the noise.