I couldn't find anything on a study at Cornell University, but I did find mention of a study at the University of Windsor that included 72 students in three gro

I couldn't find anything on a study at Cornell University, but I did find mention of a study at the University of Windsor that included 72 students in three groups: a control group, a group that listened to music before, and a group that listened to music before and during. The results[2] are published in an article behind a paywall, but they give details of the two tasks presented to the subjects, neither of which involved actually writing code. One was a 15-minute task of locating syntax errors, another was a 20-minute task of locating logic errors. [1]: https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2005-lesiuk.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2005-lesiuk.pdf [2]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08874417.2000.11647454 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08874417.2000.11...