Andrew Huberman· PhD
second best conditions are to do those tasks in the presence of instrumental music only
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second best conditions are to do those tasks in the presence of instrumental music only
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second best conditions are to do those tasks in the presence of instrumental music only
and they perform even less well when they listen to music with lyrics in the background
and then people perform especially poorly relative to their performance in silence or any of the other conditions I mentioned when they listen to their favorite music while doing cognitive work