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My view/experience is that any music with lyrics = cognitive load / distraction.
by redcalx 9y ago
My view/experience is that any music with lyrics = cognitive load / distraction.
- gwern 9y agoYes. My belief is that that is due to the "irrelevant sound [or speech] effect". (What about non-lyrical music? I'm not sure. The research literature on music interfering/non-interfering with cognition is old, large, and highly equivocal in my impression: https://www.gwern.net/Music-distraction https://www.gwern.net/Music-distraction )