Music while You Work: The Differential Distraction of Background Music on the Cognitive Test Performance of Introverts and Extraverts

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 445-455

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Bradley, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001063370     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199710)11:5<445::aid-acp472>3.3.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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