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“Another benefit of listening to music while reading is that music can help you retain information. This is because listening to music can activate the left part of your brain and the right part of your brain simultaneously. This allows for increased levels of retention and understanding, which can help you read.”
— See source here.
“Yes! I can’t read without music! Honestly, I can’t do anything without music.”
— See source here.
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Some readers may wonder how reading (or writing) and simultaneously listening to music fits into Bernard J Baars’s* post above.
Sure, you can’t concentrate as much on the music as you could do if you listened to it exclusively. However, surely these two things do occur together. Indeed, listening to music and reading (or writing) at the same time is a common phenomenon.