Effects of Familiarity of Music on Vigilant Performance
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 49 (1) , 71-74
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1979.49.1.71
Abstract
35 subjects, randomly assigned to five groups in a 2 × 2 + 1 between-subjects design, performed a vigilance task under familiar rock, familiar easy-listening, unfamiliar rock, unfamiliar easy-listening, and no music conditions. Familiar music significantly increased heart rate and percent detections and also mitigated the classical vigilance decrement. Type of music had no significant effect. It was concluded that the psychological characteristics of noise are at least as important as its physical characteristics in determining level of vigilance performance.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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