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Listening to Music While Exercising Boosts Brain Power

  • March 23, 2004

It's no secret that exercise improves mood, but new research suggests that working out to music may give you a cognitive boost as well. Listening to music while exercising helped to increase scores on a verbal fluency test among cardiac rehabilitation patients. Participants reported feeling better emotionally and mentally after working out regardless of whether or not they listened to music, but the improvement in test performance after listening to music was more than double that of the...