Music is as distracting as noise: the differential distraction of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts

摘要

previous research has found that introverts' performance on complex cognitive task is more negatively affected by distracts, e.g. music and background television, than by extraverts' performance. This study extended previous research by examining whether background noise would be as distracting as music. In the presence of silence, background garage music and office noise, 38 introverts and 38 extraverts carried out a reading comprehension task, a prose recall task and a mental arithmetic task.