很多人喜爱在学习或作业时播映布景音乐，以为能协助改进心情、激起发明力，但是这种做法或许拔苗助长。英国和瑞典科学家的一项研讨发现，布景音乐非但对发挥发明力无用，反而会形成破坏性影响。
From Mozart to metallica, tons of people enjoy listening to various types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Many believe that music helps boost creativity, but an international study conducted by English and Swedish researchers is challenging that notion.
从莫扎特到金属乐队，很多人在写作或绘画时喜爱听各种音乐。许多人以为音乐有助于激起发明力，但一项由英国和瑞典研讨人员进行的世界研讨正在否定这一观念。
Psychologists from Lancaster University, The University of G?vle, and The University of Central Lancashire say that their findings indicate music actually stymies creativity.
兰卡斯特大学、耶夫勒大学和中心兰开夏大学的心理学家标明，他们的发现标明音乐实际上阻止了发明力。
To come to their conclusions, researchers had participants complete verbal insight problems designed to inspire creativity while sitting in a quiet room, and then again while music played in the background. They found that background music “significantly impaired” the participants’ ability to complete tasks associated with verbal creativity.
研讨人员让参与者在安静的房间里完结了一些旨在激起发明力的言语洞悉问题，然后让他们在播映布景音乐时再做一次，然后得出了这一定论。研讨人员发现，布景音乐“显著地削弱”了参与者完结与言语发明力有关的使命的才能。
The research team also tested background noises such as those commonly heard in a library, but found that such noises had no impact on subjects’ creativity.
研讨小组还测试了布景噪音，比方图书馆里常常听到的噪音，但发现这些噪音对受试者的发明力没有影响。
The tasks were simple word games. For example, participants were given three words, such as dress, dial, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single word associated with all three that could be combined to form a common phrase or word. The single word, in this case, would be “sun” (sundress, sunflower, etc).
参与者需求完结的使命是一些简略的文字游戏。例如，给参与者三个单词，如dress（裙子）、dial（表盘）和flower（花）。然后，他们被要求找到一个与一切三个词相关的单词，这三个词都可以与其组合成一个常见短语或单词。而在这个例题里，这个单词应该是sun（太阳），可以组成sundress（太阳裙）、sunflower（向日葵）等词。
Participants completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or while exposed to three different types of music; music with unfamiliar lyrics, instrumental music, or music with familiar lyrics.
参与者要么在一个安静的房间里完结使命，要么一边做题一边听三种不同类型的音乐：歌词不了解的音乐、器乐演奏或歌词了解的音乐。
"We found strong evidence of impaired performance when playing background music in comparison to quiet background conditions,” says co-author Dr. Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University.
这项研讨的合著者、兰卡斯特大学的尼尔·麦克拉奇博士标明：“咱们发现了强有力的依据来证明这一现实：与安静的布景条件比较，播映布景音乐会使人们的体现遭到晦气的影响。”
Dr. McLatchie and his colleagues theorize that music interferes with the verbal working memory processes of the brain, hindering creativity. Also, as far as the library background noises having seemingly no effect, the study’s authors believe that was the case because library noises create a “steady state” environment that doesn’t disrupt concentration.
麦克拉奇博士和他的搭档以为，音乐搅扰了大脑的言语作业记忆进程，阻止了发明力。至于为什么图书馆的布景噪音好像没有影响，该研讨的作者以为，这是由于图书馆噪音发明了一个“安稳状况”的环境，不会搅扰注意力。
It’s worth mentioning that even familiar music with well known lyrics impaired participants’ creativity, regardless of whether or not it elicited a positive reaction, or whether participants typically studied or created while listening to music.
值得一提的是，即使是参与者熟知歌词的音乐也会削弱其发明力，不论它是否引起了活跃的反响，也不论参与者是否在听音乐时学习或创造。
"To conclude, the findings here challenge the popular view that music enhances creativity, and instead demonstrate that music, regardless of the presence of semantic content (no lyrics, familiar lyrics or unfamiliar lyrics), consistently disrupts creative performance in insight problem solving,” the study reads.
研讨报告写道：“总而言之，这些研讨结果挑战了人们普遍以为音乐可以增强发明力的观念，反而证明了不管音乐的内容是什么（有没有歌词、歌词熟不了解），音乐总是会搅扰人们处理洞悉力问题的发明性体现。”
semantic:adj. 语义的；语义学的
The study is published in the journal?Applied Cognitive Psychology.
该研讨宣布在《使用认知心理学》期刊上。阿
本文来历：中国日报 责任编辑：杨卉_NQ4978
