{"677354":{"#nid":"677354","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What Kind of Music Makes You Most Productive at Work? Here\u2019s What the Science Says","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen deciding on what music to improve productivity at work, you may want to consider two important variables: predictability and novelty. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003EThackery Brown\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E has been working with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yiren-ren-4756a78b\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E, a sixth-year PhD student, on examining how music affected a subject\u2019s ability to process or remember new information. \u201cMusic is just such an emotional medium,\u201d says Ren. \u201cIt can not only modulate how you feel at that moment, it can also modulate the memory you\u2019re recalling at that moment and how you perceive that memory itself.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen deciding on what music to improve productivity at work, you may want to consider two important variables: predictability and novelty. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003EThackery Brown\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E has been working with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yiren-ren-4756a78b\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E, a sixth-year PhD student, on examining how music affected a subject\u2019s ability to process or remember new information. \u201cMusic is just such an emotional medium,\u201d says Ren. \u201cIt can not only modulate how you feel at that moment, it can also modulate the memory you\u2019re recalling at that moment and how you perceive that memory itself.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-07 15:52:15","changed_gmt":"2024-10-07 15:52:15","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Fast Company","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91200882\/this-type-music-boosts-productivity-at-work-science-study","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"175547","name":"Thackery Brown"},{"id":"193935","name":"music and memory"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}