Is classroom noise always bad for children? The contribution of age and selective attention to creative performance in noise
Massonnie, Rogers, Mareschal and Kirkham, Frontiers in Psychology 10, 2019, 381. 44 children aged 5 to 11, within-subjects, two idea-generation tasks in silence and with 64 dB multi-talker noise. Noise did not promote creativity; younger children with low selective attention gave fewer and less original ideas; children with good selective attention were protected.
Massonnie, Rogers, Mareschal and Kirkham, Frontiers in Psychology 10, 2019, 381. 44 children aged 5 to 11, within-subjects, two idea-generation tasks in silence and with 64 dB multi-talker noise. Noise did not promote creativity; younger children with low selective attention gave fewer and less original ideas; children with good selective attention were protected.
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Massonnié, J., Rogers, C. J., Mareschal, D., & Kirkham, N. Z. (2019). Is classroom noise always bad for children? The contribution of age and selective attention to creative performance in noise. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 381. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00381 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00381