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Music While Studying

Listening to music while studying has sparked much debate regarding its effectiveness. Various studies have examined both the positive and negative impacts of this practice. On one side, music can enhance mood and relaxation, which may improve focus and efficiency.

Music While Studying

Music While Studying

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Gepp, Karin. “Music and Studying: Do They Go Together?” Healthline, https://www.healthline.com/health/does-music-help-you-study#negative-effects. Accessed 1 October 2024.

This source lists many positive things about listening to music while studying which I can use as positives

According to a 2007 study, music — classical music, specifically — can help your brain absorb and interpret new information more easily.

Research from 2019 suggests music can activate the same reward centers in your brain as other things you enjoy.

It can also help reduce stress and promote a more positive mindset.

Source 6 website

Mercer, Mia. “Does Listening to Music Really Help You Study? – The College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University.” College of Liberal Arts, 10 March 2021, https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/blog/2021/03/10/does-listening-to-music-really-help-you-study/. Accessed 1 October 2024.

So when you’re doing two things at the same time, like studying and listening to music, and one of the things requires cognitive effort, there will be a cost to how much information you can retain doing both activities

This source lists reasons why listening to music while studying can be good or can be bad. So that gives me options to state the positive and negative part about it.

So if you want to listen to music while you study, try to listen to something that does not have words, or if it does have words, hopefully, it’ll be in a language that you don’t understand at all, otherwise that’s going to distract from the stuff you’re trying to study.

“If you have music going on in the background when you study, it’s going to be easier to recall that information if you also have music on in the background when you take the exam

Source 4 Journal article

Kiss, Luca, and Karina J. Linnell. “Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account.” psychology of music, 27 April 2022, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03057356221089017?utm_source=summon&utm_medium=discovery-provider. Accessed 1 October 2024.

The most common reason for listening was enjoyment, a positive mood state, with more participants reporting listening to music for enjoyment while performing simple tasks than while performing complex tasks.

The associations between individual differences in biological sex, musical training, age, and music listening habits were also explored in this study using multidimensional chi-square tests for biological sex and musical training and multinomial logistic regression analyses for age with Bonferroni correction.

The most common reason for listening to music during studying was focusing on the task

This source is another study done showing numbers I can include when I am talking about the results of listening to music

Source 2 journal article

Goltz, Franziska, and Makiko Sadakata. “Do you listen to music while studying? A portrait of how people use music to optimize their cognitive performance.” ScienceDirect, October 2021, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691821001670?via%3Dihub. Accessed 27 9 2024.

I will use this source to provide information on the studies of listening to music while studying and if it works or not

A number of studies suggest a positive effect of BGM on attention and concentration, e.g., when listening to BGM during tasks measuring selective attention

Again, the variability in type of music and task, as well as individual differences seems to create a complex pattern of results.

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Furthermore, although findings are not consistent, evidence suggests that the age of participants might play a role in the effect of BGM on memory.

Source 7 website

“Listening to Music While Studying - The Pros & Cons [Upd. 2024].” Prime Sound, 24 July 2024, https://primesound.org/music-while-studying/. Accessed 1 October 2024.

This is another source that lists both positives and negatives of music while studying. I can use their examples to give reasons for each

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While music can promote focus, it can also have the opposite effect, particularly when it contains lyrics.

It acts as a gentle, steady undercurrent, tuning out external disturbances

Not only does music provide a pleasant background for studying, but it also enhances endurance, keeping students engaged for extended periods.

Source 5 Journal article

“Does listening to music regulate negative affect in a stressful situation? Examining the effects of self-selected and researcher- selected music using both silent and active controls.” Queen's University Belfast, https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/files/183559570/DoesMusic.pdf. Accessed 1 October 2024.

Thsi is another source showing results of tests done. I will be able to use reasons why and why not listening to music helps

Music listening is increasingly recognised as a potentially effective method of stress, mood, and emotion regulation

Music did not reduce anxiety compared to an active control in Study 2. However, music listening significantly increased levels of state mindfulness, which predicted lower anxiety after self selected music listening.

Study 1 indicated that participants who listened to music (self-selected and researcher-selected) reported significantly greater anxiety reduction than participants in the silent control condition.

Source 3 Journal article

Oya, Ryota, and Mihiro Shirataki. “What is the Best Western Music to Listen to When Studying?” What’s New from Juntendo University, Tokyo, 2022, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmj/advpub/0/advpub_JMJ22-0007-OT/_pdf. Accessed 1 October 2024.
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This source shows results from tests done on listening to music while doing work. It shows both a positive and negative impact on it for different tasks which I will talk about

When doing memorization tasks, it may be best to play music they have never listened to before because the novelty of the song puts the mind in a more receptive state.

According to the results, it was suggested that playing slow music or music at a low pitch when doing calculation tasks might be good because the participants were able to finish the calculation task faster under the conditions in the low pitch song and also the slow music conditions than those under counterpart conditions.

if the noise in someone’s environment is annoying and requires them to listen to some music, it seems that the ideal type of music people might want to listen to depends on what they study.

Source 1 Journal article

Liu, Ruilun, and Zuo Wang. “Preliminary Exploration of the Effectiveness of Music Listening and Music Recommender for Studying in Naturalistic Settings.” IEEE, 29 september 2023, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10260993. Accessed 1 October 2024.
How I will use this source

I will use this source to show reasons why music is beneficial to listen to while studying and the impact that it can have.

Some studies conclude that listening to music was beneficial to learning

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Numerous studies have indicated that playing music in the background can attract peoples attention

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Music listening has a profound impact on human daily activities.

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