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The effect of music on anaesthetists' psychomotor performance
Author(s) -
Hawksworth C. R. E.,
Sivalingam P.,
Asbury A. J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00274.x
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , medicine , silence , psyche , audiology , operating theatres , anesthesia , medical emergency , acoustics , psychiatry , cognition , psychology , psychoanalysis , physics
Music is frequently played in operating theatres, but may prove distracting to anaesthetists. We undertook a laboratory‐based study of the effects of music on the psychomotor performance of 12 anaesthetic trainees. Using part of the computer‐based PsychE psychomotor evaluation programme, we were unable to demonstrate any effect of self‐chosen music, silence, white noise or classical music on their performance in these tests.