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Cognitive Boost found from Exercising with Music

Tuesday March 30, 2004
Do you exercise while listening to music? A new study has found that working out to music may give you a cognitive boost. Listening to music while exercising helped cardiac rehabilitation patients in this study increase scores on a verbal fluency test.

The Science Daily article summarizing the study quotes Charles Emery, the study's lead author as stating: "This is the first study to look at the combined effects of music and short-term exercise on mental performance."

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