Comment Re:Music (Score 1) 147
I have the same reaction to music. When people come and address me I mute the music. I'll start working again and realize I'm not focused. I then unmute the music and everything goes to normal again.
A lot of it depends on your environment when you were growing up. If you always focused without music around there is a chance the music will have the adverse effect. Because my parents always listened to music I figure I must have gotten use to that.
There was two studies that I found interesting which I tried to find but with no luck:
One was about how humans react to environments with no sound. The conclusion was that humans don't deal with lack of sound very well.
Second was about the influence of music on learning and focus. There are many studies on this but I could not find the one I though was most relevant to my above comments.