Music and driving game performance
This study investigated the effects of the nature of music and a concurrent task on measures of task performance and musical preference. Subjects completed 5 laps of a computer motor racing game whilst listening to either arousing or relatively unarousing music in either the presence or absence of a...
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1999
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| author | North, Adrian Hargreaves, David |
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| description | This study investigated the effects of the nature of music and a concurrent task on measures of task performance and musical preference. Subjects completed 5 laps of a computer motor racing game whilst listening to either arousing or relatively unarousing music in either the presence or absence of a backward-counting task. Both these manipulations affected performance on the game with arousing music and backward-counting leading to slower lap times than relatively unarousing music and the absence of the backward-counting task. Backward-counting led to lower liking for the music than did the absence of this task. These results support the idea that music and the concurrent task competed for a limited processing resource. The results also indicated that liking for the music was positively related to task performance, and in conjunction these findings seem to suggest a direct link between music and the listening context. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-373992017-09-13T13:38:14Z Music and driving game performance North, Adrian Hargreaves, David This study investigated the effects of the nature of music and a concurrent task on measures of task performance and musical preference. Subjects completed 5 laps of a computer motor racing game whilst listening to either arousing or relatively unarousing music in either the presence or absence of a backward-counting task. Both these manipulations affected performance on the game with arousing music and backward-counting leading to slower lap times than relatively unarousing music and the absence of the backward-counting task. Backward-counting led to lower liking for the music than did the absence of this task. These results support the idea that music and the concurrent task competed for a limited processing resource. The results also indicated that liking for the music was positively related to task performance, and in conjunction these findings seem to suggest a direct link between music and the listening context. 1999 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37399 10.1111/1467-9450.404128 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. restricted |
| spellingShingle | North, Adrian Hargreaves, David Music and driving game performance |
| title | Music and driving game performance |
| title_full | Music and driving game performance |
| title_fullStr | Music and driving game performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Music and driving game performance |
| title_short | Music and driving game performance |
| title_sort | music and driving game performance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37399 |