Page 1/22 Avoid pleasant music while you learn: the effects of musical chord complexity on declarative memory Nawras Kurzom ( nkurzom@campus.haifa.ac.il ) University of Haifa Ilaria Lorenzi University of Pisa Avi Mendelsohn University of Haifa Article Keywords: musical chords, background music, learning and memory, long-term memory Posted Date: December 2nd, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2309308/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Additional Declarations: No competing interests reported. Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Scientic Reports on May 9th, 2023. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34345-y.