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The effects of background music on the work attention performance between musicians and non-musicians
Chia-Chun Wu1,2,3, Yi-Nuo Shih1
1Department of Occupational Therapy, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
Abstract:
For occupational safety and ergonomics, the relationship between work attention performance and background music is a trend for the future. Attention performance may be influenced by some personal factors, such as experience of music training. This investigation explores the difference between the attention performance of musicians and that of non-musicians based on a quasi-experimental design to gain a preliminary understanding of the possible effect of background music on the attention performance of both groups. This study found that a musician's attention performance is better than a non-musician's and that background music tends to improve the attention performance of both musicians and non-musicians, but to a greater extent for musicians.
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