Tempo of background sound and performance speed.
24 undergraduates performed a self-paced line tracing task. Fast music accelerated performance compared with slow music whereas the tempo of metronome tones did not affect performance.
Osaka University, Japan.
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Nittono
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Tsuda
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Akai
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Nakajima
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013997:Time Factors