Karina J Linnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5710085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karina J Linnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karina J |
| FAMILY NAME | Linnell |
| SIGNATURE | LINNELL K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Music in the eye of the beholder
Although background music listening during attention-demanding tasks is common, there is little research on how it affects fluctuations in attentional state and how these fluctuations are linked to physiological arousal. The present study built on Kiss and Linnell (2021) - showing a decrease in mind-wandering and increase in task-focus states with background music - to explore the link between attentional state and arousal with and without backgr…
Reasons for participating in musical activities and their relationship with well-being during and before Covid-19
People tend to participate in musical activities—whether it is making or listening to music—for reasons that are related to basic psychological needs. This study explored whether the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) has changed the reasons for participating in musical activities and examined the relationship between these reasons and well-being during as well as before the pandemic. In total, 246 people (between 18 and 35 years) completed a survey…
Making sense of background music listening habits
Although listening to background music is common, there is no consensus about its effects on cognitive-task performance. One potential mediating factor that could resolve the inconsistency in findings is arousal. To explore the role of arousal in mediating the effect of background music, this survey study directly explored people’s background music listening habits during a variety of everyday tasks varying in their complexity including studying,…
The effect of preferred background music on task-focus in sustained attention
Although many people listen to music while performing tasks that require sustained attention, the literature is inconclusive about its effects. The present study examined performance on a sustained-attention task and explored the effect of background music on the prevalence of different attentional states, founded on the non-linear relationship between arousal and performance. Forty students completed a variation of the Psychomotor Vigilance Task…
Trait anxiety focuses spatial attention
Some findings suggest that trait anxiety impairs selective attention (e.g., Fox, 1993) while others suggest the opposite (e.g., Murray & Janelle, 2003). Both views may hold some truth if trait anxiety affects different levels of selective attention in opposite directions: trait anxiety might improve spatial attention, or perceptual selection, but weaken postperceptual selection. We used an adaptation of the flanker task (Eriksen & Hoffman, 1973) …
Visual search within and across dimensions
We used a visual search task in which participants searched for the presence of either both members or just one member of pairs of spatially separated simple visual features. Pairs of target features could be drawn either from within the same dimension (two colours, or two orientations) or from across two different dimensions (one colour and one orientation). In Experiment 1, display items carrying target and non‐target features (target and distr…
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Visual search within and across dimensions
We used a visual search task in which participants searched for the presence of either both members or just one member of pairs of spatially separated simple visual features. Pairs of target features could be drawn either from within the same dimension (two colours, or two orientations) or from across two different dimensions (one colour and one orientation). In Experiment 1, display items carrying target and non‐target features (target and distr…
Trait anxiety focuses spatial attention
Some findings suggest that trait anxiety impairs selective attention (e.g., Fox, 1993) while others suggest the opposite (e.g., Murray & Janelle, 2003). Both views may hold some truth if trait anxiety affects different levels of selective attention in opposite directions: trait anxiety might improve spatial attention, or perceptual selection, but weaken postperceptual selection. We used an adaptation of the flanker task (Eriksen & Hoffman, 1973) …
The effect of preferred background music on task-focus in sustained attention
Although many people listen to music while performing tasks that require sustained attention, the literature is inconclusive about its effects. The present study examined performance on a sustained-attention task and explored the effect of background music on the prevalence of different attentional states, founded on the non-linear relationship between arousal and performance. Forty students completed a variation of the Psychomotor Vigilance Task…
Reasons for participating in musical activities and their relationship with well-being during and before Covid-19
People tend to participate in musical activities—whether it is making or listening to music—for reasons that are related to basic psychological needs. This study explored whether the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) has changed the reasons for participating in musical activities and examined the relationship between these reasons and well-being during as well as before the pandemic. In total, 246 people (between 18 and 35 years) completed a survey…
Making sense of background music listening habits
Although listening to background music is common, there is no consensus about its effects on cognitive-task performance. One potential mediating factor that could resolve the inconsistency in findings is arousal. To explore the role of arousal in mediating the effect of background music, this survey study directly explored people’s background music listening habits during a variety of everyday tasks varying in their complexity including studying,…
Music in the eye of the beholder
Although background music listening during attention-demanding tasks is common, there is little research on how it affects fluctuations in attentional state and how these fluctuations are linked to physiological arousal. The present study built on Kiss and Linnell (2021) - showing a decrease in mind-wandering and increase in task-focus states with background music - to explore the link between attentional state and arousal with and without backgr…
Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Arousal (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Music Therapy and Health (3 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 works)