考研英語閱讀:背景音樂很糟糕

Background Music? It’s Bad!

背景音樂很糟糕

Studying for an exam while listening to music is not smart, because background music can impair your ability to perform memory tasks, new research has found.

最新研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，邊聽音樂邊復(fù)習(xí)功課并非明智之舉：因?yàn)楸尘耙魳窌档湍阃瓿膳c記憶力相關(guān)的任務(wù)的能力。

Study participants were asked to recall a list of eight consonants in the order they were presented. They did this while in five different sound environments: quiet surroundings; music they liked; music they disliked; changing state (a sequence of random digits); and steady state (a sequence of steady digits such as “3, 3, 3, 3”).

參與調(diào)查者聽到8 個輔音字母，他們必須按照播放順序進(jìn)行復(fù)述。他們聽的時候，分別處在5 種不同的背景聲音中：安靜環(huán)境、喜歡的背景音樂、不喜歡的背景音樂、數(shù)字不斷變化的響聲，數(shù)字不變的響聲（例如：3，3，3，3）。

The participants’ recall ability was poorest when listening to music, regardless of whether they liked or disliked it, and in changing-state conditions. The most accurate recall occurred when participants performed the task in steady-state environments, according to the study published online in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

結(jié)果顯示，無論他們喜歡還是不喜歡背景音樂，在播放音樂和數(shù)字不斷變化的聲音環(huán)境里，被調(diào)查者的記憶力都最差。該研究發(fā)現(xiàn)刊登在《應(yīng)用認(rèn)知心理學(xué)》上，研究指出人在安靜環(huán)境下記憶力最好。

“ The poorer performance of the music and changing-state sounds are due to the acoustical variation within those environments. This impairs the ability to recall the order of items, via rehearsal, within the presented list, ” explained lead researcher Nick Perham, a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, in a news release from the journal’s publisher.

威爾士大學(xué)卡地夫?qū)W院的首席研究員尼克·珀罕在該期刊的新聞發(fā)布會上說：“音樂與不斷變化的聲音影響了人們的表現(xiàn)，這是因?yàn)槟切┉h(huán)境聲音變化會影響人們復(fù)述測試內(nèi)容的能力。”

“Mental arithmetic also requires the ability to retain order information in the short-term via rehearsal, and may be similarly affected by their performance in the presence of changing-state, background environments,” he added.

“心算也需要通過練習(xí)在短時間內(nèi)記住信息的順序，因此也可能受到背景環(huán)境的影響，”珀罕補(bǔ)充道。

When performing a challenging mental task, do it in silence, Perham recommended.

珀罕建議人們應(yīng)該找一個安靜的環(huán)境來完成一項(xiàng)具有挑戰(zhàn)性的腦力勞動。

 

 

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