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    Music and driving game performance

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    Authors
    North, Adrian
    Hargreaves, David
    Date
    1999
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    North, Adrian and Hargreaves, David. 1999. Music and driving game performance. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 40: pp. 285-292.
    Source Title
    Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
    DOI
    10.1111/1467-9450.404128
    ISSN
    0036-5564
    School
    of Technlogy
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37399
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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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