Music: Insights on Listening to Improve Your Performance at Work
(WorldNews Music)

Music plays an important role in our life. It influences our emotions, eases stress and tension, and has therapeutic value. For example, listening to music before a medical procedure, such as a colonoscopy, reduces anxiety. One of the questions people often ask is, “How does music influence our performance?” To answer this question, we have to distinguish between listening to music prior to work or when we take a break, and listening to music while we are working, as background music. Music arouses different emotions that have a different influence on our cognitive performance. Studies show that...