Listening to music is never a totally passive activity and when present while performing a cognitive task, it may compete for resources and impair overall efficiency of the task at hand(). From the cognitive capacity model(), there are few resources where cognitive processes can draw from and therefore, the act of multitasking can overexpend the limited resources and cause interference. However, this highly depends on very nature of the music and how overtaxing the cognitive process is. It is said that most distracting types of music are familiar, vocal music that is most often known by, chosen and liked by the user
