Throughout history, two of the most substantial influences on society have been education and music. Education is a key element to modern society as it is known. From an early age, children are sent to school on a mission to learn all they can. Students progress, year by year, with the difficultly and complexity of the content increasing as they move on. After twelve to thirteen years of this progress, an individual should earn their high school diploma, which is viewed by modern society as the most basic level of education. After finally completing the long and grueling thirteen years of education, society expects newly graduated high school alums to continue their education if they wish to attain a better paying job. This whole process of …show more content…
It is common for educators to discourage the use of headphones and listening to music in school. Administration of many schools in the United States believe that music is distracting and should not draw attention to the more important schoolwork. The educators are correct in some aspect; however, it depends on the style of music. Songs with lyrics are more likely to take away from a student’s focus than those without lyrics. A study by titled “Singing in the Brain: Independence in Lyrics and Tunes” was conducted to test the difference between both instrumental and lyrical music to uncover each style’s effect on the brain. Their reseach concluded that music and lyrics compete with each other for attention from the brain (Besson, et. al, 1998). While this study does support the dismissal of lyrical music in academia, that does that mean that classical or instrumental music cannot be incorporated. Another study done at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications says otherwise about music incorporated in learning. Qian Su and Fei Wang studied forty students broken into two groups. Group A was presented a song with a fast tempo, while at the same time being tested on cognitive memory. The other group was played a song at a slow tempo. Their study found that the studies conducted proved that music of a quicker tempo proved to be more distracted than music of a slower level, …show more content…
If wounded military men found enough comfort in music to derive an entire field of therapy, surely music will help students in dealing with the common stress of schoolwork. Not only can the comfort of music can help students cope with and overcome the fear of failure, but also test anxiety. Some believe that the incorporation of soft, relaxing music can relieve tension and help relax individuals when taking tests. A study titled “Effects of Music and Grade Consequences on Test Anxiety and Performance” was conducted at Texas State University to find out the true effect of music on test anxiety. Similar to the aforementioned study by Su and Wang, gave students either soft music or obnoxious music and measured the systolic blood pressure (SBP). The study
Music and the Brain: Processing and Responding (A General Overview). For any individual who either avidly listens to or performs music, it is understood that many melodies have amazing effects on both our emotions and our perception. To address the effects of music on the brain, it seems most logical to initially map the auditory and neural pathways of sound. In the case of humans, the mechanism responsible for receiving and transmitting sound to the brain is the ears.
But as long as the note is in the right context, it sounds fine. As humans, we have grown to develop a sort of musical grammar in detecting a wrong note. We develop an awareness to the knowledge of the rules of how certain sequences are made, very much like grammar with linguistics. Now, musical grammar can be a lot more complex than just a sour note, and can greatly differ depending on the culture you were raised in. And just as with language, this grammar has to be learned. The evidence being that infants don’t seem to be sensitive to this (21).
Ramped emotions cause distraction and disturbance to cognitive abilities. If emotions affect cognition then what effects emotion? Emotion is affected by an infinite number of factors, one being sound. By this logic, music has an indirect effect on emotion (Gorman). Though short-term, listening to positive or intellectual music can affect the way students academic performance. Positive feelings will reflect in their work (Mattar). By simply having music lessons for a short period once a day, allowing children to find peaceful emotions, students will succeed further than expected
In 2011, schools with music programs had a 90.2 percent graduation rate as opposed to schools without these advantages only having a 72.9 percent graduation rate. Funding issues have generated controversial debates about whether or not music programs should remain in schools. Although critics say that schools’ limited funds should be spent on improving on the quality of education, statistics have argued for the other side. Providing music education in schools prepares students for the workplace, causes higher attendance and graduation rates, and increases test scores.
Music, an essential component to mankind’s culture, is said to affect the intellect of humans in several different ways. Specifically, it’s affect on infants is more important than any other age group due to the brain’s plasticity at such a young age. Music can improve learning skills, test taking skills, concentration, heartbeat, and relaxation. Understanding the human brain is a great endeavor that countless scientists have spent lifetimes on. It will probably never be fully understood, however, I think that researching music’s relationship with the brain should help uncover many mysteries. Neuroscientific studies have shown music to be an agent capable of influencing complex neurobiological processes
Why have creative skills been put on the back burner in today’s society? Some say that music education is a waste of valuable resources, takes time away from academic subjects, is noisy and distracting, when in reality this is false. Music is a valuable resource that every human being should enjoy. Although our economy has been failing lately, we should not let ourselves believe that the only way to be productive is in a field that makes us unhappy, like computers or science. In America’s recent economic downfall, music education is commonly one of the first programs to be cut in districts around the country; this should not be the case because it benefits students academically, socially, and physically throughout the rest of their lives.
middle of paper ... ... Music was not taught in the high school I was in. To satisfy my interest in learning about music and how to play musical instruments, I had to find a source of education other than school; a great depiction in agreement with Graff’s claim that students are being limited by not considering their interests when creating curricula (Graff 197). In conclusion, education is broader than just falling into what the contemporary school system has to offer. Both Gatto and Graff proved this by explaining how conforming students to certain perspectives of education limits their potential in other educational branches that interest the students.
This experimental study looks at how fast and loud music interferes with cognitive tasks. The experimenters looked at the past study of how music can impact your cognitive load, specifically, listening to music can make it hard concentrate to complete the task. For this study the experimenters looked into how music with lyrics and without lyrics is loud and fast could affect your cognition through capacity interference. The results found reading comprehension was effected by the fast and loud music as well as music genre to be a factor in the disruption. The main effect the experimenters found that working- memory capacity can be affected by overloading with cognitive tasks (as the primary task) when listening to music (as a secondary task).
How frequently does the average teenager listen to music while studying or finishing up some homework? The technique is so frequently used to ease the boredom that the majority of people do not even think about how it could affect their execution of the assignment before turning on their favorite tunes. Almost every survey done on the affect that music has on accuracy has shown there to be little to no correlation between the two. During a study done at the University of Wales, it was observed that “having [music] on while they worked was just as distracting as hearing someone talk.” (Doraiswamy, 8 October 2012) This observation would show that music most likely has a slight negative effect on a person’s ability to comprehend and recall information.
How does listening to music while studying affect students’ academic performance? Many students have different ways of studying and obtaining knowledge for upcoming exams or tests. Some students prefer to study in complete isolation with complete silence while others rather have background noise such as music turned on in order to help them study. For many students, listening to music while studying helps them feel relaxed and less stressed, helps them focus more on the knowledge they are trying to obtain and overall helps with their academic performance by doing better in school. As a researcher, this question gives me interest because I would like to know why so many students use music in order to help them study and how does it affect their overall performance. As a student, I personally prefer not to listen to music while studying or doing anything related to school work because I feel as if I cannot concentrate and focus on what I am trying to study. If I listen to music while studying, my brain will just wander off and not think of the knowledge that I am trying to obtain but would rather get too focused on the music that is playing. So are there may be different genera’s of music that you should listen to that will help you stay focused and more put on the work while you are trying to study. Not only that, but I also would like to know how does music or does it at all, affect a student’s academic performance. Does listening to music while you study help you do better at school? Do you stay more focused while listening to a lecture? What I believe we need to know in order to have answers to these questions is data on students who do listen to music and if it has helped them with their overall academic performance and data o...
The average brain contains two percent phone numbers, three percent names, five percent knowledge gained in school, and ninety percent song lyrics (source 1). Through music, numerous positive benefits can influence and enhance the effectiveness of a child in and out of school. The most essential benefits that are enhanced, are work ethic, motivation, relaxation, sleep patterns and concentration. A study conducted by the University of California at Irvine in 1993 and again in 1995 was to study the effects of listening to Mozart for ten minutes before taking a test. The results from this study were the students who listened to music before their exams had dramatically improved their scores compared to students who did not participate in heeding to the music
Over 45% of people listen to at least 10 hours of music each week, according to a recent study by Lab42. In addition, a Gallup poll indicates in 2003 that 54% of American households contain at least one musical instrument player. It is evident that music is a significant part of people’s lives, but could listening to and learning music serve other purposes besides providing pleasure as an extracurricular hobby? Many have debated whether music is a valuable part of education. Currently, less than 50% of the nation's 8th graders are being taught the arts at school, and students are not achieving at high levels in music and art related activities, as reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Unfortunately, many people do not realize this fact or are aware but are simply not bothered by it. To some, music training should simply be an optional activity, and schools should not waste money incorporating it into the curriculum. On the other hand, supporters of music education point to the positive results of music training as evidence that it should be included in school curriculums. One such result is an improvement in cognitive abilities--brain-based skills humans need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. Because listening to and learning music improves cognitive abilities, music education is a necessary component in everyone’s educational curriculum, since cognitive reasoning is the foundation for successful critical thinking skills.
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Most of the people my age listen to music while studying. I cannot really explain why, but for me it helps me concentrate. A couple of months ago, I saw a little piece of information that caught my eyes. It said out of all the...
Music is a powerful art form that can motivate and change one’s emotions and mood. Listening to music for relaxation is common among many students to counteract the effects of stress or anxiety while completing difficult academic tasks. Some studies supporting this technique have shown that background music promotes cognitive performance while other studies have shown that listening to music while engaged in complex cognitive tasks can impair performance. The aim of the project is to research the following topic, “Does listening to music while working distract you?” The main reason why I chose this topic was due to being a victim to music when it comes to studying and interested to know the effects it has. But I believe that there is a way to listen to music while working without it having a negative impact on your ability to focus