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The Temporal Change of Attentional Levels Under Different Music Environments

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Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2014)

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Keeping attention at a high level is crucial for various tasks that appear in real life. Some existing works pointed out that music helps raise the level of attention. In this work, we conducted experiments to see how music affect the temporal change of attention. To estimate the level of attention, we designed a test based on the conjunction search task, which is commonly used in cognitive science. We monitored the temporal change as the subjects listened to different types of music. We made a comparison among music that they like, that they are uninterested in, and the silence condition. The result indicates that different types of music affect not only on the level of performance but also its temporal change.

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This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 21700121, 25280110, and 25540159.

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  1. Department of Children and Families, City of Takasaki, Takasaki, 370-8501, Japan

    Fumiya Mori & Fatemeh Azadi Naghsh

  2. Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-0821, Japan

    Fatemeh Azadi Naghsh

  3. Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-0821, Japan

    Fatemeh Azadi Naghsh & Taro Tezuka

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  1. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

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  2. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Maria Teresa Restivo

  3. School of Engineering, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Ireland

    James Uhomoibhi

  4. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Mori, F., Naghsh, F.A., Tezuka, T. (2015). The Temporal Change of Attentional Levels Under Different Music Environments. In: Zvacek, S., Restivo, M., Uhomoibhi, J., Helfert, M. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 510. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25768-6_4

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