The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults
Daily activities can often be performed while listening to music, which could influence the ability to select relevant stimuli while ignoring distractors. Previous studies have established that the level of arousal of music (e.g., relaxing/stimulating) has the ability to modulate mood and affect the...
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-10-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729037/full |
id |
doaj-341829a622b548afa18104be4fdccf01 |
---|---|
record_format |
Article |
spelling |
doaj-341829a622b548afa18104be4fdccf012021-10-04T06:48:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-10-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.729037729037The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of AdultsÉva Nadon0Éva Nadon1Éva Nadon2Barbara Tillmann3Arnaud Saj4Arnaud Saj5Nathalie Gosselin6Nathalie Gosselin7International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Music, Emotions, and Cognition Research Laboratory (MUSEC), Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, QC, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Metropolitain Montreal (CRIR), Montreal, QC, CanadaLyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS, UMR 5292, INSERM, U1028, University Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceDepartment of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Metropolitain Montreal (CRIR), Montreal, QC, CanadaInternational Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Music, Emotions, and Cognition Research Laboratory (MUSEC), Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, QC, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaDaily activities can often be performed while listening to music, which could influence the ability to select relevant stimuli while ignoring distractors. Previous studies have established that the level of arousal of music (e.g., relaxing/stimulating) has the ability to modulate mood and affect the performance of cognitive tasks. The aim of this research was to explore the effect of relaxing and stimulating background music on selective attention. To this aim, 46 healthy adults performed a Stroop-type task in five different sound environments: relaxing music, stimulating music, relaxing music-matched noise, stimulating music-matched noise, and silence. Results showed that response times for incongruent and congruent trials as well as the Stroop interference effect were similar across conditions. Interestingly, results revealed a decreased error rate for congruent trials in the relaxing music condition as compared to the relaxing music-matched noise condition, and a similar tendency between relaxing music and stimulating music-matched noise. Taken together, the absence of difference between background music and silence conditions suggest that they have similar effects on adult’s selective attention capacities, while noise seems to have a detrimental impact, particularly when the task is easier cognitively. In conclusion, the type of sound stimulation in the environment seems to be a factor that can affect cognitive tasks performance.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729037/fullselective attentioninhibitionStroop taskbackground musicmusical emotionbackground noise |
collection |
DOAJ |
language |
English |
format |
Article |
sources |
DOAJ |
author |
Éva Nadon Éva Nadon Éva Nadon Barbara Tillmann Arnaud Saj Arnaud Saj Nathalie Gosselin Nathalie Gosselin |
spellingShingle |
Éva Nadon Éva Nadon Éva Nadon Barbara Tillmann Arnaud Saj Arnaud Saj Nathalie Gosselin Nathalie Gosselin The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults Frontiers in Psychology selective attention inhibition Stroop task background music musical emotion background noise |
author_facet |
Éva Nadon Éva Nadon Éva Nadon Barbara Tillmann Arnaud Saj Arnaud Saj Nathalie Gosselin Nathalie Gosselin |
author_sort |
Éva Nadon |
title |
The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults |
title_short |
The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults |
title_full |
The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults |
title_fullStr |
The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults |
title_full_unstemmed |
The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults |
title_sort |
emotional effect of background music on selective attention of adults |
publisher |
Frontiers Media S.A. |
series |
Frontiers in Psychology |
issn |
1664-1078 |
publishDate |
2021-10-01 |
description |
Daily activities can often be performed while listening to music, which could influence the ability to select relevant stimuli while ignoring distractors. Previous studies have established that the level of arousal of music (e.g., relaxing/stimulating) has the ability to modulate mood and affect the performance of cognitive tasks. The aim of this research was to explore the effect of relaxing and stimulating background music on selective attention. To this aim, 46 healthy adults performed a Stroop-type task in five different sound environments: relaxing music, stimulating music, relaxing music-matched noise, stimulating music-matched noise, and silence. Results showed that response times for incongruent and congruent trials as well as the Stroop interference effect were similar across conditions. Interestingly, results revealed a decreased error rate for congruent trials in the relaxing music condition as compared to the relaxing music-matched noise condition, and a similar tendency between relaxing music and stimulating music-matched noise. Taken together, the absence of difference between background music and silence conditions suggest that they have similar effects on adult’s selective attention capacities, while noise seems to have a detrimental impact, particularly when the task is easier cognitively. In conclusion, the type of sound stimulation in the environment seems to be a factor that can affect cognitive tasks performance. |
topic |
selective attention inhibition Stroop task background music musical emotion background noise |
url |
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729037/full |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT evanadon theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT evanadon theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT evanadon theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT barbaratillmann theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT arnaudsaj theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT arnaudsaj theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT nathaliegosselin theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT nathaliegosselin theemotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT evanadon emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT evanadon emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT evanadon emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT barbaratillmann emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT arnaudsaj emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT arnaudsaj emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT nathaliegosselin emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults AT nathaliegosselin emotionaleffectofbackgroundmusiconselectiveattentionofadults |
_version_ |
1716844269113704448 |