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How to enhance your focus with sound, with Dr Nick Perham

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How Does Music Affect Your Short-Term Memory?

Most of the music we listen to tends to be quite acoustically varying. Some music, some of the music I listen to has less acoustical variation. So if you listen to things like death metal, grind-core metal, things like that, there's less acoustic variation. And we published a study showing that an example of that didn't produce as much disruption as a song that people liked that had more acoustical variations.

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