The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
My read of the literature is that certain sounds, white noise, brown noise, pink noise, people will wonder what is brown noise, but different frequencies added or deleted but white noise essentially all the sound frequencies played at an appropriate volume to not damage your ears. Binaural beats, et cetera, there are some modest effects in some studies.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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There's really no reason to suspect, however, that those particular patterns of noise are going to optimize particular mental functions.