{"id":900,"date":"2013-06-25T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=900"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T21:22:51","slug":"today-in-background-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2013\/06\/today-in-background-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in background noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/\">Artsjournal.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers report the soothing sounds of a Mozart minuet boosts the ability of children and seniors to focus on a task and ignore extraneous information. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/blogs\/news-blog\/to-stay-focused-listen-to-mozart-60841\/\">Pacific Standard<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reported today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/\">Artsjournal.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers &#8220;found that a level of ambient noise typical of a bustling coffee shop or a television playing in a living room, about 70 decibels, enhanced performance compared with the relative quiet of 50 decibels&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/21\/how-the-hum-of-a-coffee-shop-can-boost-creativity\/?src=me&amp;ref=general&amp;_r=1\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould - Truck Stop\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j5Y4wVWz-AQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported today on Artsjournal.com: Researchers report the soothing sounds of a Mozart minuet boosts the ability of children and seniors to focus on a task and ignore extraneous information. (Pacific Standard) Reported today on Artsjournal.com: Researchers &#8220;found that a level of ambient noise typical of a bustling coffee shop or a television playing in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issues","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dIW5-ew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2005,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2016\/03\/selfies-in-the-museum-victorian-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":900,"position":0},"title":"Selfies in the museum, Victorian edition","author":"Michael Rushton","date":"March 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Pacific Standard reports that \"Surprised museum researchers find many visitors snap photographs of themselves with the masterpieces.\" I'm not sure which researchers are actually surprised by this. 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