With a little help from my playlists: The impact of background music on sustained attention performance.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI:10.1037/xhp0001374

Cansu Sümer, Benjamin G Serfas, Kim Büttner, Oliver B Büttner

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Abstract

A long line of research has investigated vigilance decrement, the decline in the sustained attention performance over time. Overload perspectives suggest this decrement results from cognitive resource depletion because of task load, while underload perspectives attribute it to attention disengagement from tasks that are inherently underarousing and monotonous. Based on these two perspectives, this article investigates whether background music influences arousal and task load, thereby affecting vigilance performance. Across two experiments that were conducted in 2023 and 2024, we systematically examined the effects of music presence and different types of music (liked, disliked) on performance during an abbreviated and visually taxing vigilance task. We analyzed the roles of arousal, boredom, task load, task engagement, and personality traits (extraversion, boredom proneness). Our results did not fully align with either the overload or underload perspectives. We discuss these findings within alternative theoretical frameworks, offering new insights into the complex dynamics of vigilance and attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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在我的播放列表的帮助下：背景音乐对持续注意力表现的影响。

一长串的研究调查了警觉性下降，随着时间的推移，持续注意力的下降。超负荷的观点认为，这种减少是由于任务负荷导致的认知资源枯竭，而负荷不足的观点则将其归因于从本质上缺乏激情和单调的任务中脱离出来的注意力。基于这两个角度，本文研究背景音乐是否会影响唤醒和任务负荷，从而影响警觉性表现。在2023年和2024年进行的两项实验中，我们系统地研究了音乐的存在和不同类型的音乐（喜欢的、不喜欢的）对在一个简短的、视觉上费力的警戒任务中的表现的影响。我们分析了唤醒、无聊、任务负荷、任务参与和人格特征（外向性、无聊倾向）的作用。我们的结果并不完全符合过载或欠负载的观点。我们在不同的理论框架内讨论这些发现，为警惕性和注意力的复杂动态提供新的见解。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance 医学-心理学

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

9.50%

发文量

145

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance publishes studies on perception, control of action, perceptual aspects of language processing, and related cognitive processes.