[lcuff]

From years ago, I remember reading about a study involving punch-card batch processing, where two teams were given a stack of input data and an algorithm to implement. One team listened to music, the other not. Both teams completed the task in about the same time, but the team not listening to music saw that after the complex algorithm, the output was the same as the input.

[jzylstra]

Consistent with the study... Creativity (as insight in thought) is a form of blending from concept to output. You're saying that access to this insight was not achieved by members of the music-listening group.