And you know if I was a book I would sell cuz every curve on my body got a story to tell
In the present study 24 university students read four different texts in four conditions:
(1) while listening to music they preferred to listen to while studying;
(2) while listening to music they did not prefer to listen to while studying;
(3) while listening to a recording of noise from a café; and finally
(4) in silence.
After each text they took a reading-comprehension test. Eye movement data were recorded for all participants in all conditions.
A main effect for the reading-comprehension scores revealed that the participants scored significantly lower after they had been listening to the non-preferred music while reading, compared with reading in silence.
photo { Kyoko Hamada }
