Should Students Listen to Background Music While They Read?

Should Students Listen to Background Music While They Read?
Daniel Willingham, Science & Education, 2018/09/18
This is interesting because it represents Daniel Willingham backing off a bit from a strict and unthinking application of the cognitive load theory. The idea of cognitive load is that we can only handle so much information at a time, and so in the past we've been told we should eliminate any distraction - extra content, background music, whatever. More...