Research: Why you should listen to music while you work
A study by Simone Ritter at Radboud University in the Netherlands and Sam Ferguson, at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, looked at how listening to various types of music affected different types of thinking compared to working in silence.
Their study found that happy music enhanced participants’ creative “divergent thinking.” However they found it had no impact on “convergent thinking,” which is problem-solving.