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Does music impede studying and thinking?

--- title: Music and distraction description: Does music impede studying and thinking? created: 2012-09-26 modified: 2019-03-03 status: notes confidence: unlikely importance: 7 css-extension: dropcaps-kanzlei ... [We like music but does it help or harm cognitive performance]{.smallcaps} when we have music playing all the time? Note this is a different question from the [Mozart effect](!W) in that the Mozart-effect studies usually test performance *after* listening to classical music, while we're interested in performance *during* listening to all kinds of music; the Mozart effect has been larg

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