An investigation of cognitive test performance across conditions of silence, background noise and music as a function of neuroticism.

Anxiety Stress Coping · 2014 · PMC4066931 · PMID 24215564

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The difference between performance in silence ( M = 22.47) and in the presence of sound ( M = 17.13) just failed to reach significance, F (1, 64) = 3.90, p = .053, η 2 p = 5.7%, but there was no significant difference in performance between the music and noise conditions, F < 1.

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