Background Music Stints Creativity: Evidence from Compound Remote Associate Tasks

Autor/inn/en	Threadgold, Emma; Marsh, John E.; McLatchie, Neil; Ball, Linden J.
Titel	Background Music Stints Creativity: Evidence from Compound Remote Associate Tasks
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33 (2019) 5, S.873-888 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Threadgold, Emma) ORCID (Marsh, John E.) ORCID (McLatchie, Neil) ORCID (Ball, Linden J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3532
Schlagwörter	Music; Creativity; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Familiarity; Auditory Stimuli; Cognitive Processes; Interference (Learning) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Kreativität; Auditive Stimulation; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Background music has been claimed to enhance people's creativity. In three experiments, we investigated the impact of background music on performance of Compound Remote Associate Tasks (CRATs), which are widely thought to tap creativity. Background music with foreign (unfamiliar) lyrics (Experiment 1), instrumental music without lyrics (Experiment 2), and music with familiar lyrics (Experiment 3) all significantly impaired CRAT performance in comparison with quiet background conditions. Furthermore, Experiment 3 demonstrated that background music impaired CRAT performance regardless of whether the music induced a positive mood or whether participants typically studied in the presence of music. The findings challenge the view that background music enhances creativity and are discussed in terms of an auditory distraction account (interference-by-process) and the processing disfluency account. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01