Your playlist may be more valuable than you think.
Research has long indicated that music has the potential to boost concentration and performance on cognitive tasks such as writing or spatial reasoning, and that music can also be a powerful tool for emotional regulation. Now, researchers from New York University Tandon School of Engineering have begun to show how these two principles may work together.
"Maintaining a proper level of cognitive arousal [also known as 'intensity of emotion'] may result in being more productive throughout daily cognitive activities," writes Rose Faghih, associate professor of biomedical engineering, along with her associates who co-authored a new study analyzing how music choices influence productivity.
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