

If you consider language, learning syntax of language, learning the rules that govern how we put a sentence together, all of these require order information. "Requiring the learning of ordered information has also been found to underpin language learning. Unlikely, Perham says, as one would have tremendous difficulty recalling phone numbers, doing mental arithmetic, and even learning languages. Still, I'm curious how prevalent serial-recall is in everyday life, and if one could get by without developing this skill. "Both impaired performance on serial-recall tasks." "We found that listening to liked or disliked music was exactly the same, and both were worse than the quiet control condition," he says. I'm also interested by another of Perham's conclusions. Steady-state sounds with little acoustical variation don't impair performance nearly as much.

If sound exhibits acoustical variations, or what Perham calls an "acute changing-state," performance is impaired.
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I recently spoke with Perham, who told me about the "irrelevant sound effect." This involves a subject conducting a certain task, in this case recalling a series of numbers, while listening to different kinds of background music. Perham's 2010 study, "Can preference for background music mediate the irrelevant sound effect?", shows how music can interfere with short-term memory performance. Nick Perham, a lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Placing aside the issue of my self-induced exile, for me as well, music offered not only comfort but also increased focus - or so I thought, at least until coming across the work of Dr.
