Rocking Productivity

Rock On
Russian researchers have come up with a way to spur productivity among those whose job involves reading numbers and punching them into a computer.Play rock music in the work area.According to a report in the journal, Neuroscience of Behavior and Physiology, the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences found that a person’s ability to recognize visual images, including letters and numbers, is faster when either rock or classical music is playing in the background.But you may need a DJ to get any real benefit. Research indicates that the speed increase is lost when the music is repeated.