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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

Let's play a word game.

What word can be put in front of the words, stick, maker, and point to make three new compound words?

Again, that's stick, maker, and point.

Ready for the answer?

Match. So that would then combine to make the words match stick, matchmaker, and match point.

Emma Threadgold, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire in England.

The point of tasks like these, she says, is to measure creativity.

And if you didn't get it right away, don't worry. Neither did I. Maybe you had music playing, as you thought about the words.

And of course, many people do listen to music while they work. So Threadgold and her colleagues

recently used such word puzzles to investigate whether listening to music affects creativity.

They asked volunteers to solve 19 puzzles while listening to either a foreign language tune,

an instrumental version of the same song,

a familiar English language song,

or silence.

The results?

In every case, volunteers listening to music solved fewer puzzles than their counterparts

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