Types of Music, Schedules of Background Stimulation, and Visual Vigilance Performance
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (2) , 662
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.2.662
Abstract
The effects of different types of music on performance of a signal detection task by human subjects were analyzed using fixed interval, variable interval and random interval temporal schedules. Performance under the 3 schedules did not differ as a function of type of background music. Vigilance performance seemed best when background stimulation was discontinuous and contained elements of uncertainty (as in the rock music which was more diversified, vigorous and changeable, than the easy-listening music).This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Arousal Theory and Vigilance: Schedules for Background StimulationThe Journal of General Psychology, 1974