Listening to classical music ‘boosts concentration’ while heavy rock music ‘distracts men’ during tasks, study claims
The study found listening to different types of music had no effect on women's concentration levels
HEARING classical music boosts men’s concentration but heavy rock distracts them, a study says.
Fellas were tested by doing kids game Operation when listening on headphones to Mozart and then AC/DC.
They were faster and made fewer errors with the classics because rock can trigger stress.
The music had no effect on women, who took longer at the game but made fewer mistakes. Experts tested 352 science show visitors at London’s Imperial College.
Researcher Dr Daisy Fancourt said: “Although this study is clearly tongue-in-cheek and was all performed in our spare time it’s part of our wider research into the effect of music on performance.”
EXERCISING BOOSTS EXAM PERFORMANCE
THIRTY minutes of exercise improves the recall of words memorised just before and could help students with exams, say experts in a study at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, Lancs.
Experts say the heightened sense of “physical arousal” helps the brain digest information, improving short-term memory.
Researchers asked participants to memorise a list of 60 words and recall them 30 minutes later.
Those that cycled at a moderate intensity after learning the list remembered an average of 23 words.
But those who sat reading a book during this time could only recite 16.