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Perhaps you didn’t know that listening to music is actually an activity, and if not, you might be interested in what Prof. Dr. Lutz Jäncke has to say on the theme of music and silence at work. The emeritus professor of neuropsychology at the University of Zurich has done extensive research on the influence of music on the plasticity of the brain, i.e. its malleability through experience, and has published over 150 papers on the subject of music. ‘I have studied musicians and worked a lot on auditory perception. How people perceive sounds, music, melodies, how they process them in the brain,’ says Jäncke. ‘And I’ve done studies on background music and the question of whether it influences cognitive performance, memory, etc.’ And this is what our conversation is all about: background noise and silence in the workplace and the difference between acoustic distractions and subtle musical sounds.

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